title: Sustaining enthusiasm in the classroom: reinvestment strategies that work.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify reinvestment strategies of 11 senior health-education faculty from 3 degree programs.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data from individual, in-depth interviews were inductively analyzed for content.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The identified strategies grouped around 6 themes: growth and success in work, realization of an optimal fit into profession, investment into interpersonal relationships, focus on stimulating and uplifting experiences, pursuit of professional/personal balance, and problems and coping.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Reinvestment is a very complex process that may be mediated by frequent experience of positive emotions. Further research needs to employ a positive perspective and investigate variables from different levels of analysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY 13617, USA. arturp@stlawu.edu
authors.forename: Artur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Poczwardowski
authors.forename: Onie
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Grosshans
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Trunnell
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007449:Investments; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008611:Mentors / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D036301:Qualitative Research; D000078329:Workforce