Student Teachers with Psychological Distress on Lived Experience---The Voices of the Students

• Main Authors: Hsing-Ju Kang, 康杏如
• Other Authors: Yu-Ling Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8gbtt9

碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 教育研究所碩士班 === 95 === The main purpose of this research is to explore the lived experience of student teachers with psychological distress. Using hermeneutic phenomenology methodology to look for the meaning behind the student teachers’ psychological distress and to understand how support system to help them change the crisis to turning point. The process of mutual dialogues and interviewer’s meta-narration were conducted as method. Participants’ voices were elicited through semi-structured interviews. The study shows that the participants’ psychological distress due to their maladjustment and irrational beliefs. Anxiety and depression may be seen as evidence of the constant negative emotions (worry, fear, strain, self-abasement, doubt and so on). Two major factors affect participants’ psychological situations: one was that participants alert their negative sensations, and the other was that participants looked for social support to get help. They were afraid of talking to their teachers and asking help, because of evaluation. This research results will offer some suggestions for student teachers, educational intern institutes and future research.