Psychological functioning, personality traits and challenges in distance learning during first waves of covid-19

Abstract

Both the emotions and positive social relationships, strengths and virtues, as well as the adaptive characteristics of people, that is, their habits, values, plans, abilities and schemes, that is, psychological functioning in conjunction with personality traits, are factors that They are related to the possibility of using strategies that allow generating resources for change and adaptation to stressful events such as the confinement situation due to COVID19, where people from all social and cultural contexts had to transfer various work, school and teaching activities and processes, from the face-to-face environment to the virtual environment.  In educational contexts, this generated high levels of stress when moving from the face-to-face classroom to virtual teaching, added to isolation, illness, and even deaths or bereavements. For this reason, it was important to identify the relationship between psychological functioning and personality traits in a process of change to the online classroom for teachers. 198 teachers participated with an average age of 42.4 years. The Positive Psychological Functioning Scale Questionnaire, the Big Five Inventory and the New Contexts, New Demands and Teaching Experience Questionnaire were applied. Positive and statistically significant relationships were found between all the Subscales of the Personality Inventory and the Positive Psychological Functioning Scale, and between the latter and teaching online. The emotional state impacts on positive psychological functioning and vice versa, this together with the personality characteristics of teachers, are an important resource for adaptation to new conditions and challenges.