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The Potential of a Teacher’s Psychological Safety through Learners’ Evaluations
Yulia V. Smyk
Associate Professor of the Chair of Psychology of Education and Personal Development, Irkutsk State University (1 Karl Marx St., Irkutsk 664003, Russian Federation), Cand.Sci. (Psychol.), Associate Professor, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6567-5151, Scopus ID: 57208550332, Researcher ID: AAD-9501-2022, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Anna Yu. Kachimskaya
Associate Professor of the Chair of Psychology of Education and Personal Development, Irkutsk State University (1 Karl Marx St., Irkutsk 664003, Russian Federation), Cand.Sci. (Psychol.), Associate Professor, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1227-5063, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Valery N. Gordienko
Director, Secondary school No. 5 (7 Bulgakov St., Ust-Ilimsk 666673, Russian Federation), Cand.Sci. (Psychol.), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7273-7138, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract
Introduction. An important role in ensuring the psychological safety of the educational environment belongs to the ability to measure it. Despite the numerous publications on the problem of ensuring psychological safety, there are practically no studies on measuring the indicator of safety in education. Such an integral indicator, according to the authors, may be the potential of a teacherʼs psychological safety. Therefore, the goal is to assess the potential of the teacherʼs psychological safety as an integral diagnostic indicator and to test the authorʼs questionnaire to measure it.
Materials and Methods. To measure the potential of a teacher's psychological safety, the authors developed a questionnaire based on a structural model of potential. It is represented by three blocks, including the personal, professional and communicative qualities of the teacher. The potential was measured by the feedback method through student assessments.
Results. The factorization of empirical data made it possible to determine the factor load of individual features in the structure of each of the three components of the teacher’s psychological safety potential. Analysis of the total variance made it possible to determine the central qualities of the potential: sincerity, confidence, persistence, the ability to conduct a lesson remotely, find a compromise in communication, organization of group communication, charm. And to the peripheral include: stress resistance, erudition, cheerfulness, enthusiasm, humor, integrity, artistry, dedication to the profession, objectivity in the assessment, attentiveness, interest, explains clearly, ease, self-control, tact, compliance.
Discussion and Conclusion. The study conducted by the authors made it possible to argue the multidimensionality of the potential of the teacher’s psychological safety as an integral indicator of the safety of the educational environment. Understanding its component composition will make it possible to identify the resources of the teacher to ensure the psychological safety of schoolchildren. The data obtained allow us to outline the continuation of the study in the direction of studying the features in the structure of the components of the teacher’s potential, depending on the gender and age of schoolchildren, to determine the deficits of the student himself in the process of ensuring his psychological safety in various educational situations. This will help to specify the individual trajectory of psychological work in ensuring the safety of participants in educational relations.
Keywords: psychological safety, safety of education, potential of psychological safety of a teacher, integral indicator of safety, personality of a teacher, personal qualities of a teacher, professional qualities of a teacher, communicative qualities of a teacher
Conflict of interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
For citation: Smyk Yu.V., Kachimskaya A.Yu., Gordienko V.N. The Potential of a Teacher’s Psychological Safety through Learners’ Evaluations. Integration of Education. 2022;26(3):503–517. doi: https://doi.org/10.15507/1991-9468.108.026.202203.503-517
All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Submitted 11.02.2022; approved after reviewing 18.04.2022;
accepted for publication 25.04.2022.
Contribution of the authors:
Yu. V. Smyk – development of the research concept; literature review; conceptualization of conclusions; preparation of the text of the article.
A. Yu. Kachimskaya – preparation and conduct of an empirical study; analysis of the results, preparation of the text of the article.
V. N. Gordienko – mathematical and statistical data analysis.
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