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The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV2 has had an impact on the education sector, and
its stakeholders, such as teachers who had to do remote work from their home, despite
many constraints. These professionals tried to perform their teaching functions, despite
having to deal with adverse situations, such as cyberbullying among their students, as
well as their difficulties related to presenteeism and burnout. In this context, this study
aimed to understand whether observing cyberbullying among students can be associated
with teachers’ productivity loss due to presenteeism and burnout. This study also proposed
to examine the role of productivity loss due to presenteeism in the relationship between
observing cyberbullying situations among students and teacher burnout. A random sample
of 1,044 (Mage=51.05, SD=7.35; 76.6% female) middle school and high school teachers
answered an inventory about their experience working at home during the COVID-19
pandemic, specifically with regards to cyberbullying incidents they observed among their
students, their productivity loss due to presenteeism, and their burnout levels. Results
from structural equation modeling revealed that observing students engaging in
cyberbullying situations was positively associated with productivity loss due to presenteeism
and teacher burnout. Also, teacher’s productivity loss due to presenteeism mediated the
relationship between observing cyberbullying incidents among their students and their
burnout levels. Specifically, the effect of productivity loss due to presenteeism explained
the effect of observing cyberbullying incidents on teachers’ burnout levels. These results
are innovative and shed light on the importance of teacher wellbeing at their job in the
midst of a pandemic, namely, when they observe their students engaging in hostile
situations, which may lead them to greater levels of burnout.
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Keywords
Presenteeism Cyberbullying Burnout Teacher bystanders COVID-19 pandemic
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Ferreira, P. C., Barros, A., Pereira, N., Marques Pinto, A., & Veiga Simão, A. M. (2021). How presenteeism shaped teacher burnout in cyberbullying among students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 745252. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.745252