Stress in Teaching: An Exploration of Possible Sources

<p>For many educators the teaching profession has become a job filled with growing amounts of tension and stress which, when unattended, can lead to occupational burn-out. Through the multiple regression analysis of the responses of 95 west central Georgia classroom teachers to the Clark Teacher Occupational Stress Factor Questionnaire, this study sought to determine the current levels of teacher stress within the group and to determine whether there were correlations between the characteristics of the group and the perceived levels of stress.</p> <p>The findings indicated that classroom teachers find professional inadequacies and job overload to be the major stress producers of the five areas under consideration. It was also found that female teachers generally find teacher-principal relationships and job overload more stressful than do males. Relationships between age and perceived level of stress as well as relationships between teaching specialty and perceived level of stress were detected. The .05 level was used to establish statistical significance throughout the study.</p> <p>The findings comfirmed the idea that teacher stress is a complex, multidemensional phenonenon that warrents further investigation.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Specialist in Education

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Teacher Education

Year

1987

Author dc:creator

• Beasley, William D.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Joseph George
• Dr. Carolyn Cartledge
• Dr. James Brewbaker

• Teaching
• Educator
• Georgia
• Clark Teacher Occupational Stress Factor Questionnaire
• Job Overload
• Stress
• Education
• Educational Psychology
• Teacher Education and Professional Development

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/theses_dissertations/596

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:csuepress.columbusstate.edu:theses_dissertations-1619