DYNAMIC CHANGES IN THE LEVEL OF EMOTIONAL AND PERSONAL WELL-BEING OF TEACHERS: RESULTS OF A FORMATIVE EXPERIMENT

Abstract

For lecturers emotional and personal well-being is closely related to the quality of their professional activities. The educational environment is associated with emotional tension, need for constant active restructuring, and increase in competency requirements. Therefore, the formation of the value of emotional and personal wellbeing becomes significant, when lecturers not only strive for professional growth, but also realize responsibility for their emotional and personal well-being. Understanding of emotional and personal well-being as a holistic existential experience of the state of satisfaction and balance between the inner and outer world that arises in the process of life is laid in the theoretical and methodological basis of the present study. The given paper presents the results of a formative experiment on optimizing the emotional and personal sphere on a sample of 61 lecturers of a technical university. Data was collected in June 2022. As a backlog, the authors used data from an empirical study on assessing the level of emotional and personal well-being, conducted in January 2022, on the same sample of respondents. The subjects were divided into control and experimental groups. For the last one a complex well-being program was developed and implemented as a tool for shaping the emotional and personal well-being of employees. Based on the results of the implementation of well-being program the authors carried out self-examination of emotional and personal well-being (technique of L.V. Karapetyan, G.A. Glotova) and diagnostics of the level of emotional intelligence (test by N. Hall). We compared the resulting data array in the control and experimental groups. It showed that no significant dynamics was found in the control group. In the course of the formative experiment among the respondents of the experimental group, positive changes in the emotional and personal sphere had a significant increase. They manifested themselves in the development of emotional regulation skills of university teachers through awareness of the emotional state of oneself and others; increasing the level of stress resistance through the formation of emotional stability that allows you to perform labor functions, including in situations of stress without harm to well-being and health.

Keywords

• psychological well-being
• subjective well-being
• emotional and personal well-being
• emotional intelligence
• lecturer
• well-being event
• emotional regulation
• sanogenic behavior