Burnout and coping strategies among Professors during COVID-19: Portugal-Brazil comparative study

Ana Pinto; Carla Carvalho; Susana Rodriguez; Ana Simões; Carlos Carvalhais; Fernando J. Gonçalves; Joana Santos

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Burnout and coping strategies among Professors during COVID-19: Portugal-Brazil comparative study

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Ana Pinto¹^{, *}, Carla Carvalho², Susana Rodriguez³, Ana Simões⁴, Carlos Carvalhais⁵, Fernando J. Gonçalves⁶, Joana Santos⁷

¹Asst. Prof. Dra., University of Coimbra, Centre for Business and Economics Research (CEBER), Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Coimbra, Portugal

²Asst. Prof. Dra., University of Coimbra, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Porto, Portugal

³M.Sc., Master’s Degree in Hygiene and Safety in Organizations, School of Health of Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ESS|P.Porto), Coimbra, Portugal

⁴Asst. Prof. Dra., INESC TEC, Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering, Campus, FEUP, Porto, Portugal

⁵Asst. Prof. Dra., Center for Translational Health and Medical Biotechnology Research (TBIO), School of Health of Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ESS|P.Porto); EPIUnit - Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade Do Porto, Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ITR), Porto, Portugal

⁶Asst. Prof. Dra., Departamento Acadêmico de Metal Mecânica, Campus Florianópolis - Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

⁷Asst. Prof. Dra., Center for Translational Health and Medical Biotechnology Research (TBIO), School of Health of Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ESS|P.Porto); Associated Laboratory for Energy, Transports and Aeronautics (LAETA), Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management (INEGI) – Biomechanics and Health Unit, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

^*Corresponding author. Email: luisa.s.pinto@gmail.com

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Available Online 29 February 2024.

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Keywords: Professors; burnout; strategies of coping; Portugal; Brazil
Abstract: The global pandemic experienced in recent years led Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to close their facilities to safeguard the health and safety of the academic community. This reality overloaded professors in terms of work, often leading them to the limit of exhaustion and impacting on their performance, quality of life and well-being, taking, in many cases, to burnout. This study aims to identify and characterize the frequency of burnout and strategies of coping in professors from HEIs of Portugal and Brazil. A sample of 132 professors answered to online self-administrated questionnaires: sociodemographic and telework conditions; Oldenburg-Burnout Inventory and Brief-COPE. The results suggest that: regarding burnout, the exhaustion dimension is higher among professors in Portugal; regarding coping strategies, professors in Brazil use more strategies designated as maladaptive. Appropriate coping strategies and resources made available to professors can contribute to their well-being at work and to their quality of life and happiness.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the International Conference on Lifelong Education and Leadership for All (ICLEL 2023)
Series: Atlantis Highlights in Social Sciences, Education and Humanities
Publication Date: 29 February 2024
ISBN: 10.2991/978-94-6463-380-1_28
ISSN: 2667-128X
DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-380-1_28 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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