Coping with anxiety in teachers: how to create a healthy educational environment?

Abstract

Anxiety problems in teachers have directly affected their emotional health and professional performance, becoming a worrying area of attention for the educational sector, especially after the increase in cases following COVID-19. This study, based on an analysis of school tasks that generate anxiety, describes coping strategies and proposes institutional actions to promote a healthy and balanced work environment for academic staff. It is a qualitative study in which eight teachers with a previous diagnosis of anxiety participated. The results reveal the use of coping strategies focused on both the problem and the emotion, and suggest institutional interventions that strengthen socio-emotional training and communication to improve working conditions and reduce anxiety in teachers.