Physical, mental, and financial stress impacts of COVID-19 on early childhood educators

NL Swigonski, B James, W Wynns… - Early Childhood Education …, 2021 - Springer
Methods We developed an anonymous, self-administered online survey using validated
measurement tools. The survey was advertised through email and social media sites geared …

Neglected elements of a high-quality early childhood workforce: Whole teacher well-being and working conditions

KA Kwon, TG Ford, AL Salvatore, K Randall… - Early Childhood …, 2020 - Springer
The majority of teachers in the early care and education (ECE) workforce face disparities in
physical and psychological well-being as well as working conditions. This study examined …

Testing a holistic conceptual framework for early childhood teacher well-being

KA Kwon, TG Ford, L Jeon, A Malek-Lasater… - Journal of School …, 2021 - Elsevier
Using a holistic conceptualization of teacher well-being in concert with the Job Demands
and Resources (JD-R) framework, our interdisciplinary study examined associations among …

Physical activity, physical well-being, and psychological well-being: Associations with life satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic among early childhood …

K Randall, TG Ford, KA Kwon, SS Sisson… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Seeking personal well-being and life satisfaction during a global pandemic can be daunting,
such is the case for early care and education teachers who were considered non-health …

Early care and education workers' experience and stress during the COVID-19 pandemic

EL Quinn, B Stover, JJ Otten, N Seixas - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Early care and education (ECE) workers experience many job-related stressors. During the
COVID-19 pandemic, ECE programs either closed or remained open while workers faced …

Depressive and anxiety symptoms in early childhood education teachers: Relations to professional well-being and absenteeism

M Peele, S Wolf - Early childhood research quarterly, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigated how early childhood education teachers'(N= 444) depressive and
anxiety symptoms predicted their professional well-being outcomes and absenteeism over …

Meeting the School-Age Child Care Needs of Working Parents Facing COVID-19 Distance Learning: Policy Options to Consider.

G Adams, M Todd - Urban Institute, 2020 - ERIC
As this paper was being written, school systems across the country were increasingly
announcing plans for full or partial distance learning to respond to COVID-19, and it seems …

Early childhood stress responses to psychosocial stressors: the state of the science

RA Bates, L Militello, E Barker… - Developmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this systematic review was to better understand whether and to what extent
psychosocial stressors are associated with hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis or …

The role of teachers' depressive symptoms in classroom quality and child developmental outcomes in Early Head Start programs

KA Kwon, S Jeon, L Jeon, S Castle - Learning and Individual Differences, 2019 - Elsevier
The present study examined whether teachers' depressive symptoms are directly and
indirectly associated with children's social-emotional and language development in the …

Promising findings that the cultivating healthy intentional mindful educators' program (CHIME) strengthens early childhood teachers' emotional resources: An iterative …

H Hatton-Bowers, C Clark, G Parra, J Calvi… - Early Childhood …, 2023 - Springer
Findings suggest that an eight-week mindfulness compassion-based program, Cultivating
Healthy Intentional Mindful Educators (CHIME), is a feasible professional development …