The Psychological Well-Being and Self-Compassion on Malaysian Teachers of Counseling and Guidance

Abstract

The national development and government initiatives in realizing educational transformation has made the profession of school counseling and guidance teachers facing a challenging and vulnerable role with stress that affects their well-being. The psychological well-being of school counseling and guidance teachers need to be explored and understood to ensure their services in schools are implemented effectively. The study intends to seek contribution of self-compassion to psychological well-being among school counseling and guidance teachers. The results of previous studies have got that; (a) self-compassion contribute to the psychological well-being of school counseling and guidance teachers; and (b) good psychological well-being of school counseling and guidance teachers can promote the quality of counseling services. The implication of this study explains the demand to develop psychological well-being among Malaysian school counseling and guidance teachers. Proposed follow-up recommendations need to be performed by focusing on quantitative studies focused at further interpretation of this issues.

Hubungan Antara Self-Compassion Dengan Kesejahteraan Psikologis Pada Guru Honorer Sekolah Dasar Di Kota Padang

“…Meskipun individu memiliki cara yang berbeda dalam merespons perubahan dan stres yang timbul, baik dalam hal kesehatan fisik, kesehatan mental, pengaturan diri, maupun lingkungan sosial, selfcompassion tetap berperan penting. Penelitian lainnya yang dilakukan oleh Mohamed, Bakar, & Ifdil (2020) dan Renggani & Widiasavitri (2018) juga menunjukkan bahwa selfcompassion memiliki keterkaitan positif dengan kesejahteraan psikologis. Dalam konteks kesejahteraan mental, self-compassion dapat menjadi faktor yang penting dalam membantu guru honorer sekolah dasar untuk mengelola stres dan tekanan dalam pekerjaan mereka serta meningkatkan kualitas pekerjaan mereka.…”

Demographic Perspectives of Self-Compassion: Exploring Self-Compassion among Urban Malaysian Adolescents

“…The individual's self-compassion is defined based on their responses in a certain situation which can be positive or negative forms. Research about self-compassion has been conducted over the world which focuses on perspectives of education (Bakar & Ifdil, 2020), clinical (Athanasakou et al, 2022), and psychology (Wong, 2021). Most of the previous research examines self-compassion at any level including adolescents (Marshall et al, 2020;Phuoc & Nguyen, 2020) and adults (Phillips, 2019) to enhance the positive impact on life.…”

“…Self-compassion was conducted to investigate the perspectives of Malaysian teachers of counseling and guidance (Mahomed et al, 2019), university students and social media disorders (Mohammad et al, 2016), mental health (Kotera & Neary, 2021), and adolescents' happiness and well-being (Khatib et al, 2021). Results from the previous research showed a significant impact on happiness (Ying et al, 2016) and psychological well-being (Bakar & Ifdil, 2020). The demographic perspective also was investigated in previous research.…”