The Study on Work Stress, Leisure Coping and Health－A Case with Female Teachers of Senior High School in Taipei City

• Main Authors: Shao-Mien Chen, 陳紹綿
• Other Authors: Chienho Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55688018210673128711

碩士 === 國立台北護理學院 === 旅遊健康研究所 === 96 === The aim of this research is to explore the current status of working stress, leisure coping and health for high school female teachers in Taipei, and then further to understand the relationships. Based on the leisure coping theory, we proposed two models. With questionnaire survey, there were 6 public high schools, 6 private high schools, 2 public comprehensive high schools and 2 private comprehensive high schools selected by random sampling. There are 214 valid samples out of 580 questionnaires (37% response rate). The results revealed that, the most concerned work stress is teaching problem; the highest leisure participate is media activity; the highest degree of leisure belief is leisure self-determination; the highest degree of leisure strategy is leisure mood enhancement. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was applied, and the goodness of fit among the models was compared to identity the best model. The results of the selected model suggests that work stress appears to influence health significantly and negatively；work stress appears to influence leisure participation significantly and negatively；leisure coping appears to influence leisure strategy significantly and positively；leisure coping strategies appears to influence leisure participation significantly and positively；leisure participation appears to influence health significantly and positively. As the concluding remarks, we suggest several future research issues and implications for educational units that can help teachers cope and reduce work stress.