Work-related coping behaviour and experience patterns, career choice motivation, and motivational regulation of first-year teacher education students – Evidence from Germany and the Czech Republic. (January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mašková, Ivana; Mägdefrau, Jutta; Nohavová, Alena
• Is Part Of: Teaching and teacher education. Volume 109(2022)
• Publication Date: 2022-01
• Subjects: Burnout vulnerability -- Coping behaviour -- Career choice motives -- Motivational regulations -- Teacher education students -- Cross-country differences; Teaching -- Periodicals; Teachers -- Training of -- Periodicals; Enseignement -- Périodiques; Enseignants -- Formation -- Périodiques; Electronic journals; 371.10205
• DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2021.103560
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0742-051X

Abstract

Abstract: This study examined the association between work-related coping behaviour and experience patterns (WCEP), career choice motivation, and motivational regulation in first-year German teacher education students and their counterparts from the Czech Republic. The key finding of the present study was the association between the desirable health-promoting work-related pattern and the more autonomous higher-quality types of motivation. Regarding the cross-country differences, German students differed significantly from Czech students in terms of WCEP assignment. Whereas German teacher education students displayed more frequently the healthy work-related pattern, Czech teacher education students, on the other hand, tended to be more vulnerable to burnout.