Impact of Online Teaching Experience During Covid-19 Pandemic on Psychological Health: Moderating Role of Coping Strategy

Abstract

This study aims to examine the problems faced by high school teachers during COVID19 pandemic and its impact on psychological health: moderating role of coping
strategies. Cross sectional research method was used; a sample of 200 was selected
from high school teachers from Islamabad and Kohat through purposive sampling. An
online teaching questionnaire was used for measuring the online teaching experience
of high school teachers. The DASS scale was used to measure the psychological health
of high school teachers, and for coping strategies, select Brief-Coping Scale.
Furthermore, the findings of this study demonstrates that significant positive
association of online teaching experience questionnaire and its sub scale with BriefCope Scale (Problem focused coping), Brief-Cope Scale (Emotion focused coping), BriefCope Scale (Avoidant coping), and Brief-Cope Scale Total. The result also shows no
association of online teaching experience scale with psychological health sub scales
depression, anxiety, and stress. the findings further show the moderation between
online teaching experience, coping strategies, and psychological health the results show
the moderation between all the three variables.