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Methods: A total of 1454 national public school teachers participated in this study, 17.4% (n = 253) male, aged between 22 and 66 years old (M = 51.4, SD = 7.5). The instrument used included questions concerning sociodemographic data (gender, years of teaching experience, age, length of service), a life satisfaction scale, WHO-5\/quality of life perception, the physical and psychological symptoms scale-HBSC, depression, stress, and the anxiety scale-DASS-21. It also included questions about the school environment: relationship with the principal, and school atmosphere. Results: Four groups of teachers were created for the statistical analyses: No Life Satisfied\/No Symptoms; Life Satisfied\/No Symptoms; No Life Satisfied\/With Symptoms; and Life Satisfied\/With Symptoms. The results revealed that male teachers showed higher percentages for the following groups: No Life Satisfied\/No Symptoms (\u03c72 = 17.223(3), p \u2264 0.001, 20.2%), Life Satisfied\/No Symptoms (\u03c72 = 17.223(3), p \u2264 0.001, 43.3%) and No Life Satisfied\/With Symptoms (\u03c72 = 17.223(3), p \u2264 0.001, 23.9%). Conclusions: The results made it possible to identify a profile of teachers who are more likely to develop mental health problems and psychological distress: those who have lower perceived life satisfaction and more psychological symptoms, which are associated with a low perception of quality of life, a worse relationship with principals and a worse perception of the quality of the school environment; this situation seems to be even worse among female teachers.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/future2020007","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,14]],"date-time":"2024-06-14T10:42:34Z","timestamp":1718361754000},"page":"80-91","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Psychological Health and Life Satisfaction of Portuguese Teachers"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"2","author":[{"given":"Gina","family":"Tom\u00e9","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de Sa\u00fade Ambiental, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal"},{"name":"Equipa Aventura Social, 1400-185 Lisbon, Portugal"},{"name":"Faculdade de Ci\u00eancias da Sa\u00fade, Universidade Europeia,1500-210 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5497-9870","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nuno","family":"Rodrigues","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dire\u00e7\u00e3o-Geral de Estat\u00edstica da Educa\u00e7\u00e3o e Ci\u00eancia (DGEEC), 1200-774 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Margarida Gaspar de","family":"Matos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de Sa\u00fade Ambiental, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal"},{"name":"Equipa Aventura Social, 1400-185 Lisbon, Portugal"},{"name":"Faculdade de Ci\u00eancias Humanas, Universidade Cat\u00f3lica Portuguesa, 1649-023 Lisbon, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"132","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tate.2016.10.008","article-title":"The impact of mindfulness on the wellbeing and performance of educators: A systematic review of the empirical literature","volume":"61","author":"Lomas","year":"2017","journal-title":"Teach. 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