The Effect of Primary and Middle School Teachers’ Problematic Internet Use and Fear of COVID-19 on Psychological Need Thwarting of Online Teaching and Psychological Distress
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Primary and Middle School Teachers as a Vulnerable Population
1.2. Online Teaching and Teacher Psychological Well-Being
1.3. Psychological Need Thwarting of Online Teaching
1.4. Conceptual Model
1.5. Aims of the Present Study
- What is the prevalence of psychological problems among the teachers sampled, including psychological distress, PNT of online teaching, fear of COVID-19, PSU and PSMU? (RQ1)
- Which relationships among variables are statistically significant? (RQ2)
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants and Procedure
2.2. Measures
2.2.1. Psychological Distress
2.2.2. Fear of COVID-19
2.2.3. Problematic Smartphone Use
2.2.4. Problematic Social Media Use
2.2.5. Psychological Need Thwarting of Online Teaching
2.2.6. Demographic Information
2.3. Statistical Analyses
3. Results
3.1. Participant Characteristics
3.2. Descriptive Statistics and Pearson Correlations (RQ 1)
3.3. Measurement Model (RQ 2)
3.4. Full Structural Equation Model (RQ 2)
3.5. Common Method Bias
4. Discussion
4.1. Principal Results
4.2. Contextualization of Findings
4.3. Proposed Conceptual Model
5. Conclusions
5.1. PIU as a Predictor
5.2. The Impact of PNT of Online Teaching
5.3. PNT of Online Teaching as a Novel Research Construct
5.4. Limitations and Contributions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Demographic Variable | Category | Value | Overall Population Statistics; Test of Statistical Significance |
---|---|---|---|
Age in year; M (SD) | 33.94 (8.81) | 37.78; t = −24.85 (p < 0.001) | |
School type; n (%) | 2 = 1.66 (p = 0.20) | ||
Primary school | 5838 (64.65%) | 64% | |
Middle school | 3192 (35.35%) | 36% | |
Sex; n (%) | 2 = 30.88 (p < 0.001) | ||
Male | 2467 (27.3%) | 30% | |
Female | 6563 (72.7%) | 70% | |
Years of work experience; n (%) | 2 = 260.54 (p < 0.001) | ||
Under 5 years | 2207 (24.4%) | 21% | |
6–10 years | 1620 (17.9%) | 15% | |
11–15 years | 1268 (14.0%) | 17% | |
16–20 years | 1049 (11.7%) | 16% | |
Above 21 years | 2886 (32.0%) | 31% | |
Home-room teacher; n (%) | Not available | ||
Yes | 5225 (57.9%) | ||
No | 3805 (42.1%) | ||
Prior online teaching experience; n (%) | Not available | ||
Yes | 2643 (29.30%) | ||
No | 6387 (70.70%) | ||
Subject taught; n (%) | Not available | ||
Chinese | 2624 (29.05%) | ||
English | 1601 (17.73%) | ||
Mathematics | 2222 (24.60%) | ||
Science | 716 (7.93%) | ||
Social science | 1008 (11.17%) | ||
Other (music, art, physics, politics) | 859 (9.52%) |
Mean (SD) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
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1. Psychological distress | 0.36 (0.48) | 1.00 | ||||
2. Fear of COVID-19 | 2.69 (0.75) | 0.41 * | 1.00 | |||
3. PSU | 2.76 (1.03) | 0.34 * | 0.35 * | 1.00 | ||
4. PSMU | 2.26 (0.79) | 0.31 * | 0.27 * | 0.57 * | 1.00 | |
5. PNT | 3.54 (0.89) | 0.25 * | 0.28 * | 0.26 * | 0.18 * | 1.00 |
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Yi, J.; Chen, I.-H.; Lin, C.-Y.; Li, C.-C.; Liao, X.-L.; Wei, Z.-H.; Gamble, J.H. The Effect of Primary and Middle School Teachers’ Problematic Internet Use and Fear of COVID-19 on Psychological Need Thwarting of Online Teaching and Psychological Distress. Healthcare 2021, 9, 1199. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9091199
Yi J, Chen I-H, Lin C-Y, Li C-C, Liao X-L, Wei Z-H, Gamble JH. The Effect of Primary and Middle School Teachers’ Problematic Internet Use and Fear of COVID-19 on Psychological Need Thwarting of Online Teaching and Psychological Distress. Healthcare. 2021; 9(9):1199. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9091199
Chicago/Turabian StyleYi, Jian, I-Hua Chen, Chung-Ying Lin, Cheng-Chieh Li, Xiao-Ling Liao, Zhi-Hui Wei, and Jeffrey Hugh Gamble. 2021. "The Effect of Primary and Middle School Teachers’ Problematic Internet Use and Fear of COVID-19 on Psychological Need Thwarting of Online Teaching and Psychological Distress" Healthcare 9, no. 9: 1199. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9091199