Description of the Quality of Life of Teachers for Special Needs Students During the Pandemic of COVID-19

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10.2991/assehr.k.210805.192How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Quality of life, teacher of special needs students, online learning, COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

During the COVID-19 pandemic, all activities were limited and carried out from home. It also includes learning that must be done from home, so that can affect the quality of life for teachers, especially for Special Needs or ABK teachers. The purpose of this study was to describe the quality of life of the ABK teachers during the pandemic. Participants in this study were 101 teachers of children with special needs, who were categorized as early adults and middle adults aged 20-65 years. The design of this research is non-experimental quantitative, using tools measure in the form of a questionnaire. The measuring instrument used to measure the quality of life for ABK teachers is WHOQOL-BREF which was adapted by Purba et. al. based on the quality of life domain, namely physical, psychological, social relations and social environment. The results of this study show that the quality of life of the ABK teachers is in the high category.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Pamela Hendra Heng
AU  - Riana Sahrani
AU  - Nurhayati Silalahi
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/08
TI  - Description of the Quality of Life of Teachers for Special Needs Students During the Pandemic of COVID-19
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics, Business, Social, and Humanities (ICEBSH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1224
EP  - 1231
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210805.192
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210805.192
ID  - Heng2021
ER  -