TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - The organizational health of urban elementary schools: school health and teacher functioning
JO  - School mental health
A1  - Mehta, Tara G.
A1  - Atkins, M. Stella
A1  - Frazier, Stacy L.
SP  - 144
EP  - 154
VL  - 5
IS  - 3
N2  - This study examined the factor structure of the Organizational Health Inventory-Elementary version (OHI-E; Hoy et al. in Open schools/healthy schools: measuring organizational climate. Sage, Beverly Hills, CA, 1991) in a sample of 203 teachers working in 19 high-poverty, urban schools and the association of organizational school health with teacher efficacy, teacher stress, and job satisfaction. <br><br>RESULTS indicated a similar factor structure of the OHI-E as compared with the population of schools in the original sample (Hoy et al. in Open schools/healthy schools: measuring organizational climate. Sage, Beverly Hills, CA, 1991), and that specific components of organizational health, such as a positive learning environment, are associated with teacher efficacy, stress, and satisfaction. Overall, teachers' relations with their peers, their school leadership, and their students appear especially critical in high-poverty, urban schools. Recommendations for research and practice related to improving high-poverty, urban schools are presented.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1866-2625
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12310-012-9099-4
ID  - ref1
ER  -