Life Quality Assessment of Special Education Teachers in Greece
This study focused on examining professional life quality of 135 primary and secondary special education teachers working in Greece. Taking into account the factors associated with professional life quality, the secondary objectives of the study were to investigate the relationship between quality of working life of the participants and their demographical-general characteristics (gender, years of service, level of education, age, education level, type of disability of the child they support, number of students they educate, family situation, field of work), as well as to examine the possible relevance of the three dimensions of professional life quality. For the assessment we used the questionnaire ‘Professional Quality of Life: Compassion, Satisfaction and Fatigue Version 5 (ProQOL)’ (Stamm, 2009). The results revealed that the level of job satisfaction of teachers working in the field of special education in Greece is average. Their burnout and secondary traumatic stress were also low. A statistically significant relationship was found between the variables secondary traumatic stress and gender, job satisfaction and job level, burnout and gender, secondary traumatic stress and burnout and between job satisfaction and the variables burnout and secondary traumatic stress.
Work Life Quality, Job Satisfaction, Burnout, Special Education Teachers
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