| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 商業教育學系 === 96 === The Relational Research on Job Stress and Coping Strategy of Principals in the Elementary Schools in central Taiwan
Ming-Cheng, Chen
Abstract
This research aims to investigate central Taiwan Elementary School principals’ Job Stress and their coping strategies. The researcher analyzed the differences of central Taiwan elementary school principals’ Job Stress and their strategies based on different background variables. Furthermore, it was scheduled that principals anticipate the stress they face at work and the strategies they plan to employ to cope with the stress. Some suggestions are proposed, according to the research results. The can be the reference for central Taiwan elementary school principals, the educational administrations, and the future research.
I. Research conclusions
1. The sensed job stress of principals in the elementary Schools of central Taiwan was under middle degree, especially from authorities, place attention, and administrative accountability .
2. The principals who from public primary schools in central Taiwan can use coping strategies by middle-high scale. The more positive strategies they adopted, the less working pressure they had. On the other hand, the more negative strategies they adopted, the more working pressure they had. Problem solving, mood moving, and logic thinking are often employed by principals.
3. Because of the different region and size of the schools, principals’ sensed job stress is significant difference .
4. Principals of elementary schools may employ different strategies by their distinct seniority,gender and age.
5. There is a negative correlation between principals’ job stress and their coping strategies. Within the coping strategies, logic thinking and mood adjusting is negative correlated. However, principals’ job stress and their mood escaping are positive correlated.
6. Principals’ coping strategies can be predicted by some variables from principals’ job stress.
II. Suggestions for elementary school principals
1. Knowing the existence of the stress and managing individual stress
2. Employing each kind of coping strategies and facing the stress positively
3. Promoting their profession and taking advanced study
4. Putting the experience of principal inheriting high and constructing a platform for knowledge share
III. Suggestions for educational administration agency
1. Value principal’s professional knowledge and reduce jobs which are not related to school.
2. Encourage principal to take advanced study in office and help them to join or to do some research related to their specialized subject.
3. Increase the budget for teaching equipment and reduce the administrative intervention in school.
4. Value the exchange of principals’ experience and the communication with principals. Construct some mechanism and channels for principals to release their pressure.
5. Increase the welfare for the administrative staffs to enhance their willing of participating administration.
VI. Suggestions for further research
1. Principals’ personal psychological attributes, their background and experience of administration, family situation, blood class, and constellation, can be added as the research variables to conduct the further study.
2. Further researcher could enlarge the participants to the principals from the public and private primary, secondary, and high school and analyze the difference among them.
3. Further researcher can employ qualitative research, such as interview, observation, and case study, in this kind of researcher to understand the participants deeply. It is excepted that the researcher could find more interesting results.
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