Exploring Diurnal Cortisol Rhythms of Kindergarten Teachers in Kosovo and Ukraine.
Teachers' stress is a dynamic combination of the individual teacher's characteristics and characteristics of the classroom and school environment. To date, there are limited studies on teachers' stress in the context of lower‐middle‐income countries (LMICs), where working conditions as well as gener...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 63; no. 3/4; pp. 286 - 298 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2019
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