Dr.Hab., Professor L. Kardeliene¹
PhD, Associate Professor A. Sharkauskiene^1
1Klaipeda University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Klaipeda, Lithuania

The national educational system gives a growing priority to the physical education specialist’s emotional wellbeing viewed as a professional success factor. The situation is complicated by the low status of the school physical education lessons and instructors. The physical education specialists (n=324) from the general education school system of Lithuania were randomly sampled for the study purposes. The emotional wellbeing in the sample was rated on a 12-point scale of the key emotional stressors. The study data provided the means to compute individual stress scores and split up the sample into the following two groups: one group exposed to big and frequent stresses; and the other group exposed to occasional stresses only. The study data and analyses found about one of three instructors facing job-specific stressors; and one of four instructors reporting exposure to stress due to the excessive/ specific management requirements. The study also found a correlation of the emotional wellbeing rates with the educational service records.

Keywords: teacher of Physical Education, emotional wellbeing, educational service.

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