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The mental resilience of employees in special education during the pandemic Covid-19

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Submitted   Jan 7, 2022
Published   Feb 10, 2022
Issue    Vol 2 No 1 (2022)
DOI   10.25082/AMLER.2022.01.008

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Georgia Konstantopoulou
Department of Education and Social Work, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Vlassi Dimitra
Department of Education and Social Work, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Ioanna Papakala
Department of Education and Social Work, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Renieri Styliani
Department of Education and Social Work, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Tomara Vasiliki
Department of Education and Social Work, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Maria Ioakeimidi
Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology, School of Philosophy, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Antonios D. Niros corresponding author
Department of Education & Technologies in Distance Learning and Learning Systems, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece
Michail Boutis
Department of Science & Technology, School of Postgraduate Specialization in Information Systems, Open University of Greece, Greece
Theodoros Iliou
Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Abstract

In the present work, an investigation is carried out for the burnout of Special Education Teachers and Special Support Staff, as considered necessary to investigate, to communicate this aspect of the problems caused by the pandemic. The special education teachers' sector did not have to be part of a research interest, which aroused their interest in this work. The questionnaire was made through his platform Google Forms, shared electronically in all country regions, and responded to these seventy-four people as a sample. Given the statistical results, it appeared that positive emotions largely possessed respondents; it was adaptive and optimistic despite the difficulties they faced. To ensure the reliability of the results, a corresponding one was sought content surveys to compare results and see any similarities or differences.

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special education, teacher’s secondary education, special support staff, Connor-Davidson resilience scale

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Konstantopoulou, G., Dimitra, V., Papakala, I., Styliani, R., Vasiliki, T., Ioakeimidi, M., Niros, A., Boutis, M., & Iliou, T. (2022). The mental resilience of employees in special education during the pandemic Covid-19. Advances in Mobile Learning Educational Research, 2(1), 246-250. https://doi.org/10.25082/AMLER.2022.01.008
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