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Teachers' use of boundary management tactics to maintain work-life balance

Molly A. Austinson

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The teaching profession has a well-documented history of low work-life balance. This study explored the boundary management tactics of teachers before and during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic to determine tactics used by teachers with high work-life balance satisfaction, with the aim to provide information on managing boundaries that can assist teachers with work-life balance beyond the years of the pandemic. The mixed methods approach used quantitative data to measure the work-life balance satisfaction of teachers and frequency of boundary tactics, while the qualitative responses allowed for teachers to expand upon the quantitative options and share their voices and stories in their efforts to maintain balance between work and nonwork lives. Participants were recruited using large teacher groups on social media, requests for participation from the researchers known teacher contacts, and snowball sampling. Responses were collected via a survey that contained Likert scale, multiple response, and open-ended questions. The quantitative data showed changes in teacher work-life balance satisfaction over time and that teachers used a variety of boundary management strategies to attempt work-life balance. Qualitative data showed that teachers based their disengagement from work around three common themes: activities, people, and time. Of teachers who reported the highest satisfaction with work-life balance, it became clear that while some boundary management tactics were common, the most important factor was that teachers had established boundaries to manage their work-life balance and they themselves respected those boundaries. In the face of The Great Resignation and high rates of teacher burnout, educational systems must consider the work-life balance of their teachers and train them with the skills to set boundaries that foster a satisfactory balance between work and nonwork domains.

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KeywordsBoundary management, Work-life balance, Teachers, Educators, Covid-19 pandemic

Degree AwardedDoctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership

Awarding InstitutionNorthwest Nazarene University

Committee MembersBritney Gandhi, Legena Roberts-Kpinkpin

Supervisor or ChairHeidi Curtis

Peer Reviewed?No

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