メンタルヘルス

対人関係

バーンアウト

ストレス

teacher

mental health

interpersonal relationship

burnout

stress

Problems among students, such as violent behavior, bullying, and truancy, are currently on the increase in schools. Complaints from guardians have also become one of the main social problems in Japan. Teachers may find themselves spending more time and effort dealing with these problems than doing their routine work. Frequent occurrences of these problems can be expected to have a negative influence on the teachers’ mental health but effective treatments are not provided to them. Under these circumstances, the number of public school teachers who take a leave of absence because of mental health problems has remained steady at around 5,000 per year since 2007. While past studies conducted in Japan on teachers’ mental health focused on problems such as work pressure, student guidance, classroom-management matters, office work, division of school affairs, extracurricular activities, problematic behavior, and teaching subjects; in recent years there has been an increase in studies from other viewpoints, i.e., interpersonal relationships (between the teachers and their colleagues, managers, students, and guardians of students) and burnout or stress. In this paper, the author reviews the studies that have examined teachers’ mental health and their interpersonal relationships. Thereafter, the author suggests promising directions of future research in this field.

501 学内論文 ＞ 紀要 ＞ 大学院紀要＝Bulletin of graduate studies ＞ 84