Happiness from the teaching experience: mental health well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic

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https://doi.org/10.19136/hs.a24n3.6105

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Objective: To determine perceptions of happiness from teaching experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic at the end of the 2021 academic year.

Materials and Methods: The methodology used is applied, with a population of 457 education professionals from public elementary schools in the Institutional Education Network (REI) in Lima, Peru, and a non-probabilistic sample of 104 teachers. The data collection tools used the happiness scale to measure the positive meaning of life.

Results: 51% reported a high level of happiness. Regarding the dimension “positive meaning of life,” the majority (76%) reported a high level. In addition, 59.6% reported a moderate level of “personal fulfillment,” and 82.7% of participants reported a high level of “joy of living.”

Conclusions: Happiness, a life project based on teaching experiences, during the pandemic can be described as a way to increase the impact of positive feelings and was proposed favorably in terms of happiness levels despite the influential situations of COVID-19.

 

Keywords: Experience; Mental Health; Pandemic COVID-19.

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Author Biographies

  • Ysabel Victoria Chavez Taipe, Cesar Vallejo University

    PhD in education. Graduate School. Cesar Vallejo University. Lima, Peru

  • Zoila Ayvar Bazán, Cesar Vallejo University

    PhD in education. Graduate School. Cesar Vallejo University. Lima, Peru.

  • Delsi Mariela Huaita Acha, Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

    PhD in education. Research professor. Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. Lima, Peru.

  • Maria Elena Cornejo Guevara, Cesar Vallejo University

    PhD in education. Graduate School. Cesar Vallejo University. Lima, Peru

  • Marilé Lozano Lozano, Universidad Norbert Wiener

    PhD in education. Academic Secretary. Norbert Wiener Private University. Lima, Peru.

  • Jorge Luis Albarrán Gil, National University of Education Enrique Guzmán y Valle

    PhD in education. Graduate School. Enrique Guzmán y Valle National University of Education. Lima, Peru.

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Published

2025-11-10

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Vol. 24 No. 3 (2025)

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Chavez Taipe, Y. V., Ayvar Bazán, Z., Huaita Acha, D. M., Cornejo Guevara, M. E., Lozano Lozano, M., & Albarrán Gil, J. L. (2025). Happiness from the teaching experience: mental health well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Horizonte Sanitario, 24(3), 746-758. https://doi.org/10.19136/hs.a24n3.6105