澳门幼师被同侪拒绝:自尊的影响及应付方法

Being Spurned by Peers in Preschool Teachers in Macao:Self-esteem and Coping Methods

当幼师发现同侪在工作上遇到困难时,多会向他们提供帮助,例如教学方法和其他信息的分享。但提供帮助时若被同侪拒绝,幼师会有何反应呢?我们基于一项有关助人被拒的理论为蓝本,透过问卷探讨229位幼师当向同侪提出帮助时被拒的感受和反应。我们预测幼师连番被拒将引致自尊受损,而自尊心较高的幼师,其自尊心受损的程度比自尊心较低的幼师更强烈。本研究亦探讨自尊心高或低的幼师采用什么方法面对被拒的窘境。结果显示幼师的反应大致符合我们的预测。

When preschool teachers find peer teachers encountering difficulties in their work,they are likely to offer help to such peers,with the help pertaining to,for instance,ways of guiding children.Yet,if the offer of help to peers is refused by the peers,how would the teachers react？ Based on a model on reactions of rejected helpers,the authors examined,in the present study,the feelings and reactions of preschool teachers when their offers of help were repeatedly rejected by their peer teachers.The authors predicted that,when rejected,preschool teachers would experience a threat to their self-esteem,and that teachers with higher self-esteem would experience stronger threat.Another objective of the study was to examine how teachers with higher or lower self-esteem coped with refusal of help by peers.The results of a survey of 229 preschool teachers in Macao lent support to most of the hypotheses.