Lee, Alfred S.Y. and Fung, Wing Kai and Chan, D. K. C. and Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa (2024) The effectiveness of a positive psychological intervention for promoting preschool teachers’ well-being and professional competence: EASP intervention program. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. ISSN 1758-0846
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Abstract
The present study investigated the effectiveness of the Early Advancement in Social-Emotional Health and Positivity (EASP) program, a positive psychological intervention promoting preschool teachers’ well-being and the motivational aspect of professional competence. Participants were 273 in-service preschool teachers (Mage = 34.56 years, SD = 9.52, range = 22–58; female = 98.90%) who participated in a 2-month randomized controlled trial. Participants were randomly assigned to the intervention group (n = 143) receiving 1) four online workshops, 2) a smartphone app, and 3) an online activity, or to the wait-list control group (n = 130), which received the intervention materials after all the data collection. Participants reported their well-being dimensions, teaching self-efficacy, and autonomous motivation for teaching before and after the intervention. Results from a path analytic model exhibited excellent fit with the data, χ2 = 37.62, df = 33, CFI = .99, TLI = .98, RMSEA = .02 [90% CI = 0.00, 0.05], SRMR = .02. The intervention had direct effects on changes in well-being dimensions, including positivity, outcome, strength, engagement, and resilience (β = .14 to .26, ps = .00 to .04), and indirect intervention effects on changes in teaching self-efficacy and autonomous motivation for teaching (β = .14 to .15, ps = .00 to .01). These findings highlighted the potential value of implementing positive psychological interventions in educational settings to promote the well-being and professional competence among preschool teachers.
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| Additional Information and Comments: | © 2024 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Education |
| Depositing User: | Wing Kai Fung |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Mar 2024 10:39 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Nov 2024 13:31 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4172 |
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