Resilience, social support, and confidence in vocational choice of pre-service teachers in times of Corona crisis.

Hirschberger, Stephanie; Wittner, Britta; Kauffeld, Simone

doi:10.24355/dbbs.084-202308161724-0

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Resilience, social support, and confidence in vocational choice of pre-service teachers in times of Corona crisis.

Hirschberger, Stephanie ; Wittner, Britta ; Kauffeld, Simone

The TU4Teachers project collects data from pre-service teachers at the Technische Universität Braunschweig for the purpose of tracking their student career development and also for the evaluation of the teacher training program as a whole.
In this study, pre-service teachers are defined as German university students who are studying for a teaching degree in order to be able to teach in schools.
The dataset presented here contains a sub-sample of the overall project, which deals with the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on these pre-service teachers.
As a global crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic hit everyone hard.
Because young people at the beginning of their careers were at a crucial stage of their development when social distancing started, they were particularly affected.
This influence on career planning and decisions may be particularly true for pre-service teachers, as their career perspectives changed dramatically during the crisis.
The data set consists of two cohorts of student teachers who started their studies in the winter semester of 18/19 and in the winter semester of 19/20.
In addition, the dataset contains three measurement points structured for the Corona crisis: January 2020 (and thus before the beginning of the crisis), April 2020 (at the beginning of the lockdown, switch to online teaching), June 2020 ( during a period of relative relaxation).
In addition to demographic variables (age, gender, cohort), the dataset includes questionnaire variables on resilience (10 items, Schulte et al., 2016), social support (1 item, Wittner et al., 2019, 2020), perception of the Corona crisis as a career shock (1 item, Bright et al., 2005), and confidence in vocational choice (3 items, Neuenschwander et al., 2013).

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Translated title:

Resilienz, soziale Unterstützung und Vertrauen in die Berufswahl von Lehramtsstudierenden in Zeiten der Corona-Krise. (German)

References:

How Do Social Support and Personal Resilience Assure Confidence in Vocational Choice in Times of the Pandemic? [Article / Chapter]. https://doi.org/10.5334/spo.48

Date Created:

01.06.2023

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01.2020

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04.2020

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07.2020

Date Issued:

28.09.2023

DOI:

10.24355/dbbs.084-202308161724-0

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English

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Text

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10.531846046447754 52.27330017089844

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Lehramtsstudierende

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Coronakrise

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Ressourcen

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158 Angewandte Psychologie

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02 - Life Sciences

Type:: Table Data set over 3 measurement time points on resources during the Corona crisis.
Research Object:: People Pre-service teachers (students aiming to become teachers) at the TU Braunschweig
Data Origin:: Surveys and Interviews Data collection was conducted via an online survey that prospective teachers could access from their own computers.
Used Software:: Editing R (Version 4.3.1)
Methods/Processes:: The survey was conceptualized as an online survey in which students had to participate for course credit, but were allowed to decline to respond to any item.
Research Instruments:: - Confidence in Vocational Choice from Neuenschwander et al. (2013); three items; 6-point Likert Scale ranging from 1 (not at all true) to 6 (exactly true); all three measurement points - Thought Process Triggered by the COVID-19 Pandemic, adapted from Bright et al. (2005); item: "Unplanned or random events can provide the impetus to reflect on one’s plans. To what extent did the COVID-19 pandemic make you think about your long-term career plans/goals?"; 6-point-Likert Scale from 1 (very much) to 6 (not at all ); measured in April 2020 - FITOR by Schulte et al. (2016); 10 items for individual resilience; a 6-point Likert-type scale ranging from 1 (not at all true) to 6 (exactly true); all three measurement points - Social Support by Wittner and colleagues (2019, 2020); one item after making them aware of their support network ("How well do you feel supported by your network?"); 6-point Likert-type scale; measured in April 2020
Description of Data Processing:: Initial processing of the data was done in SPSS to match the different times of data collection and to combine the different cohorts (students in their second and fourth semesters, respectively), and later processing was done in R and RStudio.