Principal Burnout: How Urban School Leaders Experience Secondary Trauma on the U.S.-Mexico Border

DeMatthews, David E.; Carrola, Paul A.; Knight, David S.; Izquierdo, Elena

doi:10.1080/15700763.2018.1513153

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“…Recent studies affirm the seriousness of stress for educational leaders (DeMatthews et al, 2018; Hawk and Martin, 2011; Leventis et al, 2017; Wells, 2016; Wells et al, 2011). Much of this stress relates to ever-increasing tasks that comprise the role of school principal.…”

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Principals and stress: Few coping strategies for abundant stressors

Mahfouz¹

2018

Educational Management Administration & Leadership

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Various job demands continue to be very stressing and exhausting for school administrators who have to work under unprecedented pressure. This qualitative study explores the various stressors school administrators experience and the coping strategies they utilize to manage their stress. Findings show that the various stressors experienced by the school administrators do affect their job performance and their own wellbeing. Principals mentioned three main types of stressors related to work, relationships and time. They also experienced some unpleasant feelings in response to these stressors such as guilt, a sense of unfairness, loneliness, or disappointment. However, their coping strategies comprised of spending time with loved ones and having an outlet outside work. Implications for social emotional skills-based professional development programmes for school administrators are discussed.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 96%

Principals and stress: Few coping strategies for abundant stressors

Mahfouz¹

2018

Educational Management Administration & Leadership

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“…Stress has become an inevitable part of a K-12 school administrator's life. Findings from recent studies confirm the serious consequences of emotional exhaustion and stress for educational leaders (Mahfouz 2018;DeMatthews et al, 2019;Hawk & Martin, 2011;Leventis et al, 2017;Wells, 2016;Wells et al, 2011). Much of this stress is attributed to principals' ever-increasing and regularly changing workloads.…”

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confidence: 76%

At the Crossroads: Wellbeing and Principalship Preparation

Mahfouz

Richardson

2020

Journal of Research on Leadership Education

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This study was designed to gain a baseline understanding of how future K-12 building leaders in pre-service principal preparation programs address their own wellbeing. In this exploratory study, pre-service school leaders across the United States self-assessed their levels of stress and social–emotional competencies. Students from 30 pre-service principal preparation programs across the United States completed a survey that included four social–emotional learning scales. The findings indicate that this population may not be well equipped to deal with the stressors of the principalship. The findings can be used as a baseline to understand how changes in curriculum might impact these constructs.

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“…Principals need to understand how stress contributes to burnout and engage in self-care to reduce stress. In this way, self-recognition of burnout can help principals identify the early signs of stress and execute plans to manage and reduce the stress they experience (DeMatthews et al. , 2019).…”

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“…Although the researchers in these studies identified the stressors and reactions of principals during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, little is known on how principals engaged in self-care practices and focused on their well-being. In the past decade, scholars (DeMatthews et al, 2019;Mahfouz, 2020;Ray et al, 2020) have identified the need for more research into how the role of the principal can be redesigned to facilitate essential responsibilities, avoid unwanted stress and prevent principal burnout through self-care and well-being.…”

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Responsibility, stress and the well-being of school principals: how principals engaged in self-care during the COVID-19 crisis

Hayes

Anderson

Carpenter

2022

JEA

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PurposeThis study centers the reflections of principals across the USA as they navigated the overwhelming stress of closing and reopening schools during a global pandemic. Specifically, the authors explored how school principals addressed self-care and their own well-being during the pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThis research study is part of a broader qualitative study conducted by 20 scholars from across the USA in Spring 2020 and organized by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE). This national research team conducted 120 qualitative interviews with public school principals in 19 different states and 100 districts. As part of this team, the authors coded and analyzed all 120 transcripts in NVivo using a self-care framework.FindingsThe responses from the participants capture some of the complexity of self-care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors found evidence of both negative and positive sentiments towards self-care that will be described in five major themes. For the tensions with self-care, the authors developed two primary themes: leaders eat last and keep from falling off the cliff. For the demonstrations of self-care, the authors also developed three primary themes: release the endorphins, people need people and unplug from work.Originality/valueAlthough researchers have identified the stressors and reactions of principals during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, little is known on how principals engaged in self-care practices. This study aims to identify these self-care practices and offer recommendations for principals.

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Principal Burnout: How Urban School Leaders Experience Secondary Trauma on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Cited by 33 publications

References 52 publications

Principals and stress: Few coping strategies for abundant stressors

Principals and stress: Few coping strategies for abundant stressors

At the Crossroads: Wellbeing and Principalship Preparation

Responsibility, stress and the well-being of school principals: how principals engaged in self-care during the COVID-19 crisis

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