This study aims to identify the social and psychological burdens placed on educators during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan and to propose an optimal form of support. We investigated educators’ perceptions of psychological and socioeconomic anxieties and burdens, sense of coherence, and social capital using a questionnaire survey of 1000 educators in January 2021. Multivariate regression analyses were conducted to analyze the associations between the variables. Results: Approximately 80% of the respondents considered COVID-19 a formidable, life-threatening illness. Our results revealed that the higher the social capital, the greater the fear of COVID-19, and the higher the sense of coherence, the lower this fear. Conclusions: The anxiety burden of implementing infection prevention was higher than the anxiety burden associated with distance learning. The predictive factors for educators’ perceptions of burden included sense of coherence, gender, and age. Our findings suggest the importance of having the government and educational institutions provide multidimensional assistance that matches educators’ individual characteristics.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, sense of coherence, social capital, Educator, social and psychological burdens, 【초록키워드】 Anxiety, COVID-19 pandemic, Gender, Characteristics, Infection prevention, Japan, age, Psychological, questionnaire, association, Predictive, Support, Government, Factor, multivariate, life-threatening, greater, identify, investigated, conducted, multidimensional, regression analysis, variables, 【제목키워드】 survey, burden, Capital, Psychosocial, sense, relationship, Coherence,