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ERIC Number: EJ1041096
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Sep
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1381-2890
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Teachers' High Maintenance Behaviour as Perceived by University Students in Taiwan, and Their Coping Strategies
Hong, Fu-Yuan; Cheng, Kuang-Tsan
Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, v17 n3 p503-525 Sep 2014
Using a questionnaire survey, this study probed into interpersonal cues and characteristics of teachers' high maintenance behaviors perceived by university students and their coping strategies, and then analyzed the relationship between their perceived high maintenance behaviors and the dimensions of their coping strategies. The Scale of Teachers' High maintenance Behaviors and the Scale of Coping with Teachers' High maintenance Behaviors were used as the measurement tools. The subjects were 248 university students, of which 59.3% were male and 40.7% were female. According to the research results, the subjects mostly suggested that they define teachers as being high maintenance after getting along with them for one to two weeks and communicating with them using 6-20 sentences. The subjects also suggested that the ranking of the behavioral characteristics of the most significant high maintenance behaviors of teachers is: being old-fashioned, followed by rule followers, idealization, and irresponsible opinions. According to the scores, the ranking of the subjects' coping strategies for high maintenance behaviors of teachers is obedience and endurance, followed by gentle resistance, compromise, and obvious unhappiness. There is a significant correlation between teachers' high maintenance behaviors perceived by university students and the dimensions of their coping strategies. It was found that teachers' high maintenance behaviors perceived by university students could significantly predict the dimensions of coping strategies. Based on the above, this study proposed some suggestions and provided a discussion for university teachers and future studies.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
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