

Factors of Career Longevity of Preschool Teachers
https://doi.org/10.35627/2219-5238/2025-33-2-72-81
Abstract
Introduction: Professional activities of preschool teachers are associated with a high degree of responsibility, neuroemotional stress, and a high probability of conflict situations. Within the concept of active longevity, current realities raise issues of health of the population in general and of this occupational group in particular in a new way. In this regard, the study of factors contributing to career longevity of preschool teachers is timely and relevant.
Objective: To identify health-promoting factors affecting the working life expectancy of preschool teachers.
Materials and methods: The data collected in 2022-2024 within the quantitative sociological survey (n = 190), the assessment of work ability index using the results of the periodic medical examination (n = 132), and the qualitative sociological survey (n = 28) served as the empirical basis of this article.
Results: Self-rated health of preschool teachers was satisfactory, good, and excellent in 60 %, 38.9 %, and 4.2 % of them, respectively. More than a third of the teachers (36.1 %) noted a negative impact of the specifics of work on their own health, while 27.8 % considered it neutral and 4.2 % found it to be positive. We identified the key health maintaining factors, which degree of influence on the well-being of preschool employees and their career longevity, including after the retirement age, was significant (on a 5-point scale): 1. Intensive (> 4.3 points) with low dispersion of opinions, that is, greater typicality in answers (lifestyle and physical activity, environmental conditions, and stress management); 2. High (4-4.2 points) with a low range of opinions (working conditions); and 3. Moderate (< 3.9 points) with a high range of opinions (health care availability).
Conclusions: Physical activity, good environmental and working conditions, psychological diversity, emotional release, and mandatory medical supervision were found to be the factors having a positive effect on the well-being of preschool teachers and their career longevity, including working in retirement.
About the Authors
Т. V. TemaevRussian Federation
Timur V. Temaev, Dr. Sci. (Sociol.), Leading Researcher, Head of the Laboratory of Analysis of Medical and Social Problems, Saratov Medical Scientific Center for Hygiene, Federal Scientific Center for Medical and Preventive Health Risk Management Technologies; Professor, Department of Sociology of Social Work, Saratov National Research State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky
Bldg 1, 1A Zarechnaya Street, Saratov, 410022,
83 Astrakhanskaya Street, Saratov 410012
I. V. Temaeva
Russian Federation
Irina V. Temaeva, Cand. Sci. (Sociol.), Associate Professor, Department of Speech Therapy and Psycholinguistics
83 Astrakhanskaya Street, Saratov 410012
N. E. Komleva
Russian Federation
Nataliia E. Komleva, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Deputy Head
Bldg 1, 1A Zarechnaya Street, Saratov, 410022
S. V. Sitnikova
Russian Federation
Svetlana V. Sitnikova, Dr. Sci. (Sociol.), Professor, Department of Social Informatics
83 Astrakhanskaya Street, Saratov 410012
T. A. Bogomolova
Russian Federation
Tatiana A. Bogomolova, Junior Researcher, Laboratory of Analysis of Medical and Social Problems
Bldg 1, 1A Zarechnaya Street, Saratov, 410022
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For citations:
Temaev Т.V., Temaeva I.V., Komleva N.E., Sitnikova S.V., Bogomolova T.A. Factors of Career Longevity of Preschool Teachers. Public Health and Life Environment – PH&LE. 2025;33(2):72-81. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.35627/2219-5238/2025-33-2-72-81