Do teachers have worse mental health? Review of the existing comparative research and results from the Belgian Health Interview Survey

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Summary

The Belgian Health Interview Survey is used to compare teachers with 31 other occupations on five mental health indicators: psychological impairment, somatization, depressive, anxiety, and sleeping disorder, and the idea that teachers have worse mental health than other professionals is less conclusive than often assumed.

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2015-10-01
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Mental health, Somatization, Psychology, Anxiety, Empirical research

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