![]() It was investigated to which degree these sources of influence could contribute to the lecturers’ satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with their teaching processes. The present survey focused on four possible sources of influence: internal assessments of the situation determining it to be threatening and/or challenging, personal resources, attitudes, and support by the organization. However, how well a person adjusts to a novel situation is also influenced by personal and environmental resources which help to overcome the situation. These appraisals are important for approaching a situation or shying away from it. ![]() The survey focuses on the lecturers’ appraisals of the novel situation as challenging or threatful. How did lecturers handle the situation? Were they still able to turn the situation into a positive one? What were the main obstacles with this difficult situation, and where there conditions which helped them to overcome the new challenges? These are research questions of the present survey with a sample of 1,152 lecturers at universities in Austria and Germany. Thus, in March 2020, all universities closed their campuses, switching to distance learning within the span of about a single day. The summer semester had just begun at Austrian and German universities when Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization.
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