The characteristic of patience and its relationship to methods of coping with psychological stress among a sample of teachers of children with learning disabilities

Alqahtani, Khalid; Alqahtani, Abdullah

doi:10.21608/jsre.2021.56131.1242

The characteristic of patience and its relationship to methods of coping with psychological stress among a sample of teachers of children with learning disabilities

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Department of Special Education, College of Education, Al-Baha University, Saudi Arabia

² Department of Special Education, College of Education, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia

10.21608/jsre.2021.56131.1242

Abstract

The aim of the research was to discover the nature of the correlative relationship between teachers’ scores on the patience trait scale and their scores on methods of coping skills with psychological stress scale, and to discover the difference between the average scores of low and high experiences of teachers of students with learning disabilities on the measures of the patience trait and methods of coping skills with psychological stress. The research was based on the relational descriptive approach to analyze the data. The research sample consisted of (146) teachers of students with learning disabilities who placed in general education schools in the Riyadh region. The results showed a positive correlation at a level of significance (0.01) between teachers ’scores on the patience trait scale and their scores on the methods of coping skills with psychological stress scale. In addition, there were statistically significant differences at (0.01) between the average grades of low and high experience of teachers on the dimensions of patience in the short term and patience in the long term and total score was for highly experienced teachers of students with learning disabilities. Also, there were statistically significant differences (0.01) between the average grades of low and high experience of teachers on the scale of methods of coping skills with psychological stress was highly for high experience teachers.

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Education

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