Patterns of Stress and Resilience Experienced by Junior High School Teachers

Fadilla Halim, Sintha Tresnadewi, Utami Widiati

Abstract


Abstract: This descriptive qualitative study is to investigate the patterns of the sources of stress and the pivotal aspects to become resilient experienced by junior high school teachers. Six teachers of junior high school in Malang who have been teaching for more than 10 years are involved. The data shows that there are six major challenges faced by the teachers namely pandemic, class management, fatigue manifestation, work-related stress, time management and curriculum and school administrator. Meanwhile, the significant points of resilience administered by the teachers in the face of difficult times are having positive personality, contructive support system and institutional support.

Abstrak: Penelitian kualitatif deskriptif ini adalah untuk mengetahui pola sumber stres dan aspek penting untuk menjadi resilien yang dialami oleh guru SMP. Enam guru SMP di Malang yang telah mengajar lebih dari 10 tahun dilibatkan dalam penelitian ini. Data menunjukkan bahwa ada enam tantangan utama yang dihadapi guru yaitu pandemi, manajemen kelas, kelelahan, stres terkait pekerjaan, manajemen waktu dan kurikulum serta administrator sekolah. Sementara aspek untuk resiliensi yang dilakukan oleh partisipan dalam menghadapi masa-masa sulit adalah memiliki kepribadian yang positif, support system yang konstruktif serta dukungan institusional.

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resilience; junior high school; ketangguhan; sekolah menengah pertama

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