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Frontiers of Education in China

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Front Educ Chin    2008, Vol. 3 Issue (4) : 623-638    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-008-0041-3
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Review of teachers’ mental health research in China since 1994
ZHANG Jijia 1, LU Aitao 2
1.Center for Psychology Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510031, China; 2.Department of Psychology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 38602, China;
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Abstract

To summarize the widely dispersed literature concerning Chinese teachers’ mental status, the present paper conducted a quantitative research synthesis with a focus on the current situation and development in teachers’ mental disorders. On one hand, the results demonstrated that many critical problems existed in the exploration of this issue, such as the primary application of one uniform research type (i.e., theoretical discussion) and single-scale method (i.e., SCL-90); on the other, the comparison analysis showed that college teachers obtained significantly higher pathological prevalence than the other two (i.e., kindergarteners and teachers of middle or primary schools). And such negative prevalence has increased over the years and became sharper after 2000. Additionally, mental disorders seem more severe in country teachers (relative to those working in town), teachers aged above 40 (relative to those younger), and female teachers (relative to males). It is suggested that urgent attention should be paid to further improve the research level by highlighting the methodological consideration, especially focusing on the in-depth survey investigation, refined experimental study, as well as high-caliber qualitative research, and thus clarify the mechanism of teachers’ psychological disorders.

Keywords teacher      mental health      mental health research      meta-analysis     
Corresponding Author(s): ZHANG Jijia,Email:zhangjj@scnu.edu.cn   
Issue Date: 05 December 2008
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ZHANG Jijia,LU Aitao. Review of teachers’ mental health research in China since 1994[J]. Front Educ Chin, 2008, 3(4): 623-638.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/fed/EN/10.1007/s11516-008-0041-3
https://academic.hep.com.cn/fed/EN/Y2008/V3/I4/623
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