“My home is my castle” – Still the case with home-schooling?

Previous research has established that teachers’ well-being is associated with recovery ability and adaptive coping strategies. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, school-teachers are facing newburdens in their work life, such as reorganization of their daily work, online teaching, and fostering students’ distance learning. Since the pandemic poses an unfamiliar, stressful situation, this study explores the effect these new circumstances have on teachers’ well-being. In particular, this project focuses on teachers’ recovery ability in the face of the pandemic and it aims at investigating whichstrategies teachers use to cope with work-related stress. For data collection, an online questionnaire was sent to Austrian secondary school teachers asking about the work situation, attitude towardwork (AVEM), and coping behavior (Brief COPE). First results indicate that the pandemic has had a negative impact on teachers’ job satisfaction, their workload and their ability to relax in their leisure time.