WORKPLACE STRESS AND COPING STRATEGIES IN THE TEACHING PROFESSION
Keywords:
Workplace stress, coping strategies, teaching professionAbstract
It is believed by many people that teaching is an easy task. But now a days, it has become a challenging profession which needs active participation of teacher throughout the teaching learning process. Even in schools teacher are required to perform many nonacademic work along with academic responsibilities. The workload, high stake job demands and even bad behavior of staff, students and parents may work as stressors for teachers in teaching profession. Long lasting stress leads to the adverse effects on teachers’ health and performance which in turn leads to the poor education system. For enhancing educations system teachers need to be stress free and they should know hope to cope from stress situations.
References
I. Blix et al. (1994) “Occupational stress among university teachers” Journal of Educational Research, Volume 36, issue2, 1994.
II. Caplan R.D., (1987) “Person-Environment Fit Theory and Organizations: Commensurate Dimensions, Time Perspectives, and Mechanisms”, Journal of Vocational Behavior 31, 248-267.
III. Cary L. Cooper, (2002) "Theories of organizational Stress” Manchester of School management, The University of Manchester Institute of science and technology, (UMIST), Manchester UK.
IV. Kaur N., (2016) “Evaluation of factors causing stress among school teachers of north India”, Dissertation Submitted to Dublin Business School.
V. Sharma A., and Chaudhary S., (2011) “Stress among working women: A Comparative study on Government and private Sector”. An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology Volume 14, 1994 -Issue 3.
VI. Srivastava A.K.,(1991) “A study of the role stress-mental health relationship as a Moderator by adopting coping strategies”, Psychological Studies, Pg. No. 192 –197.
Additional Files
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2022 International Education and Research Journal (IERJ)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.