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Title STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AND COPING STRATEGIES FOR TEACHERS AT SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL

Author(s) Navid Sadiq

Abstract The present research study was conducted to find out the occupational stress and coping strategies for teachers at secondary school level. Three major objectives were made for the study to explore the occupational stress among the teachers having physical, behavioral and emotional stress indicators, coping strategies adopted by teachers and a relationship between occupational stress and coping strategies. Lazarus and Folkman model for stress was adopted for this study. This study used quantitative approach. Sample size of the study was 233 respondents. Convenient sampling technique was used for the collection of data. Adapted closed-ended research questionnaire was used based on five-point likert scale for achieving the objectives of the study. The reliability of research instrument was checked by conducting the pilot study, which gave the value of Cronbach Alpha as 0.88. Statistical techniques of percentage, frequency, mean, standard deviation and Pearson correlation were applied. Major findings of the study show that during physical stress teachers‟ mostly feel tense after continuous hard work, get headache, lack of physical energy after a prolonged hard work. During behavioral stress, teachers get late to end-up the task assigned to them (like paper-marking activity), they go to work even when they feel sick and they have to bring work home. Whereas, during emotional stress, teachers feel trouble in remembering things, they feel frightened about problems, which they cannot really describe. It becomes hard for them to really relax at home due to family commitments, they feel extremely sensitive and irritable, and they feel like other people do not understand them as well as the students‟ impulsive behavior causes problems for them. A statistically significant correlation between occupational stress and coping strategies was found among teachers at secondary school level. It was concluded that individual teachers should know about their occupational stress indicators and coping strategies to effectively deal with their stress. Suitable working environment, bearable work-load, proper break/rest time and medical leave in case of sickness were recommended for teachers to overcome their stress and improve their performance.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Social Sciences

Department Education

Language English

Publication Date 2021-07-28

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Description New developments and job demands are emerging in the field of education which not only put pressure on the teachers but also on their occupation. There is a need to conduct researches in the field of education to improve the quality of education and teachers and to minimize their levels of occupational stress. The occupational stress is a broad term generally used in the business management, but it is a new concept in the field of education, that is whether or not the educational institutions located in Rawalpindi region carried out a systematic assessment to identify the indicators that cause occupational stress and whether or not they explored the coping strategies used by teachers to deal with their occupational stress.