The school organisational health questionnaire: contribution to the Italian validation

Teaching is a stressful occupation, one of the professions with the highest levels of mental health problems. Some studies suggested that this may be due to professional isolation, high levels of emotional labour and main stressors may include disciplinary problems, low salaries, disagreement with colleagues or with parents. Few instruments have been validated specifically for assessing teachers stress, morale and school organisational climate: the School Organisational Health Questionnaire (SOHQ: Hart et al., 2000) is the main one, whose properties of the Italian version are here presented (337 teachers in Italy filled out a self report questionnaire including the SOHQ scales).