The purpose of this study was to explore the well-being of school principals and the job-embedded demands responsible for challenging their adoption of healthy self-care practices.,Drawing upon a multidisciplinary theoretical framework that included contributions from the fields of neurobiology and psychology, three tiers of self-care needs were established to inform the study: basic physiological needs such as sleep, hydration, and nutrition; active self-care practices such as exercise, relaxation, and stress relief; and higher order needs such as belongingness and love addressed through work-life balance, volunteerism, and relational belonging. A 45-question survey containing Likert scale items and open-ended questions was returned from 473 practicing building administrators (a 24.4% response rate).,Findings from this study, compared to estimates from the literature, indicate that school leaders work longer hours, are more sleep deprived, more dehydrated, have poorer diet practices, exercise less regularly, and spend less time with their friends and family than the general population. Administrators struggled to find ways within their control to improve their self-care behavior and offered suggestions regarding how the structure of the job itself might be changed to facilitate improving the health of school leaders.,This work offers insight into the current well-being of school principals, and by better understanding administrators’ self-care practices, this study can inform the field in developing supports, practices, and expectations, which promote the health and well-being of building-level leaders. Unhealthy self-care practices may influence their effectiveness, happiness, and possibly their longevity within the profession. Data collected through this study informed ideas about policies and procedures that could promote greater opportunities for healthier, more effective leaders within schools.

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校长的自我保健习惯

这项研究的目的是探索学校校长的福祉以及应对挑战挑战他们采用健康的自我护理习惯的工作要求。基于多学科的理论框架，其中包括神经生物学和心理学领域的贡献，建立了三个层次的自我保健需求来为研究提供信息：基本的生理需求，例如睡眠，水分和营养；积极的自我保健做法，例如运动，放松和缓解压力；和更高层次的需求，例如通过工作与生活的平衡，志愿服务和关系归属感来解决归属感和爱情。从473名执业的建筑管理员中返回了一个45个问题的调查，其中包含李克特量表项目和不限成员名额的问题（答复率为24.4％）。与文献中的估计值相比，表明与一般人群相比，学校领导者工作时间更长，睡眠不足，脱水程度更多，饮食习惯较差，规律运动较少，与朋友和家人在一起的时间更少。管理人员努力寻找可以控制的方式来改善他们的自我保健行为，并就如何改变工作本身的结构以促进学校领导者的健康提出了建议。这项工作提供了对当前健康状况的洞察力。校长，并通过更好地了解管理人员的自我保健做法，可以为该领域提供支持，做法和期望，从而促进建筑物级领导者的健康和福祉。不健康的自我保健做法可能会影响其有效性，幸福，以及他们在行业内的长寿。通过这项研究收集的数据提供了有关政策和程序的想法，这些政策和程序可以为学校中更健康，更有效的领导者带来更多机会。