Stress in Boom Times: Understanding Teachers' Economic Anxiety in a High-Cost Urban District

Autor/inn/en	Dizon-Ross, Elise; Loeb, Susanna; Penner, Emily; Rochmes, Jane
Titel	Stress in Boom Times: Understanding Teachers' Economic Anxiety in a High-Cost Urban District
Quelle	5 (2019) 4, (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Stress Variables; Teacher Attitudes; Anxiety; Urban Schools; Labor Market; Economic Climate; Well Being; School Districts; Predictor Variables; Faculty Mobility; Age Differences; Job Performance; Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher Persistence; Negative Attitudes; Teacher Attendance; Urban Education; California (San Francisco) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrerverhalten; Angst; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Wirtschaftslage; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; School district; Schulbezirk; Prädiktor; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Work performance; Arbeitsleistung; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Negative Fixierung; Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen
Abstract	Despite growing concern over teachers' ability to live comfortably where they work, we know little about the systematic relationship between affordability and teachers' well-being, particularly in high-cost urban areas. We use novel survey data from San Francisco Unified School District to identify the patterns and prevalence of economic anxiety among teachers and assess how this anxiety predicts teachers' attitudes, behaviors, and turnover. We find that San Francisco teachers have far higher levels of economic anxiety on average than a national sample of employed adults, and that younger teachers are particularly financially anxious. Furthermore, such anxiety predicts measures of job performance and teacher retention--economically anxious teachers tend to have more negative attitudes about their jobs, have worse attendance, and are 50% more likely to depart the district within 2 years after the survey. [This article was published in "AERA Open" (EJ1238414).] (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01