“I wasn’t prepared for this”: a grounded theory study of student teachers’ stressors and coping mechanisms during teaching internship in physical education
Chao Wang, Dejun Yang, Zhongming Shi · 2026
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Student PE teachers describe internship stressors in a 2026 grounded theory study by Chao Wang and colleagues. Deep interviews with 30 elementary physical education student teachers in western China were coded in three levels to build a model linking stress events, appraisal, coping, and outcomes.
Stress centered on teaching itself: complex tasks and interpersonal friction, rooted in resources failing to meet demands. Appraisals sorted into challenge, threat, and helplessness types, each steering coping toward gaining, protecting, or draining resources. Outcomes ranged from stronger professional identity to burnout, and fed back into later appraisal. Interventions, the authors suggest, should target the resource imbalance upstream.
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| CREATOR | Chao Wang, Dejun Yang, Zhongming Shi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42551 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |