Organizational Stress Among Teachers
Keywords:
teacher stress, workload, relationshipsAbstract
Even though the concept of stress has received much attention in the popular press, in research, and in teacher workshops, the actual sources of work-related stress among Canadian teachers remain far from clearly established. The major purpose of this study was to obtain from teachers their perceptions of major sources of work-related stress and to assess the degree to which these stressors accounted for the overall stress on the job. This was achieved by controlling for the selected background variables of sex, age, level of education, grade level taught, years of teaching experience, size of the school, and perceived personal-life stress. Major findings showed that four identifiable job-related factors accounted for a significant part of teacher work-related stress, and that the selected background variables failed to account for significant variation in job-related stress levels. The four factors which made the most substantial contribution to overall job-related stress of teachers were Role Overload, Relationships with Students, Work Load, and Relationships with Colleagues.
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