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Occupational Stress and Sleep Among Teachers: What is The Effective-Ness of A Programme to Reduce Occupational Stress Using Mindfulness?
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In Portugal, teachers are subjected to numerous sources of pressure, which leads us to be a country with very high levels of
occupational stress in this professional group. Occupational stress influences many aspects of the individual’s life, both personally
and professionally, and mindfulness programmes have proved to be highly effective in reducing these symptoms, both personally
and in the teaching profession, since there are studies that point to an improvement in the student-teacher relationship, with
subsequent positive changes in the student’s academic performance. To bring some innovation to the programme to be applied
in this study, physiological sleep measurement was added to the Stress and Mindfulness programmes, as this variable is related to
stress, insofar as it is assumed that the higher the levels of stress, the lower the quality of sleep.
The present research aims to develop a mindfulness programme to be applied to a group of teachers intending to reduce
occupational stress and try to understand to what extent occupational stress levels influence the quality and perception of teachers’
sleep quality. The results obtained indicate that occupational stress had a significant and negative effect on the quality of sleep at the
first moment of assessment, namely in the overwork dimension, and that, after the application of the programme, the participating
teachers showed lower levels of occupational stress, namely in the bureaucratic work, students’ motivation, overwork, and students’
indiscipline dimensions. Concerning the quality of sleep, the results did not show significant statistical differences; however, it was
possible to identify differences in sleep quality between the assessment moments.
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Sleep; Occupational Stress; Teachers; Mindfulness Programmes.