Thoughts about aspects and effects of teacher’s psychological well-being

Abstract

Schools are penetrated by emotions, amongst teacher’s emotions which are remarkably influencing school climate and even students’ achievements. The growing in terest for this topic showed by the existence of numerous examinations on traits of teachers’ mental hygiene in a differentiated way, there are traditionally burn out orientated and lately psychological well-being researches. The actual part of these examinations, especially Hungarian ones is in the middle of the study. The focus is the relevant results of the researches about the emotional background of the teachers’ occupational and personal life, including the links between the danger of burning out and life orientation, psychological knowledge, self-knowledge, specialisation and capableness for flow on lessons. The article shows the process, that is happening in the meantime in the field of the researches on teachers’ personality traits , that are ascending as a more remarkable area for education science. In this field, -thanks for the powerful impacts of theories of positive psychology and personal psychology on educational studies -it has become obvious that, teachers’ personality traits, the personal and the occupational self are important parts of teachers’ identity. Finally, -finding links between teachers’ emotional states and certain aspects of teachers’ training- this study touches main components of the Finnish teacher’ training model, the one of the most successful model, that is nowadays referred as an ideal. The main factor of the Finnish model for us is that there practical educational tools exist for growing awareness of teacher’s own identity, and shaping occupational self. It is different from Hungary, where those efforts for understanding concepts of self -knowledge, occupational self are more theoretical ones.