Job Stress of Female Teachers at Junior High School in Yilan County

• Main Author: 劉怡君
• Other Authors: 段昌國
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39195559562917604547

碩士 === 佛光大學 === 未來學系 === 100 === Abstract With changes in society, continues education policy reform, diverse ways for students to receive new information, rising awareness of the parents, and rapid transmission of information on the internet, teaching in classrooms can no longer be compared with as in the past. All these changes have consequently caused an increase in school teachers’ job stress. In this study, a qualitative research, using in-depth interviews, was conducted on five female junior high school teachers, who came from different backgrounds, townships and sizes of school. The aim is to explore the job stress of female teachers in Yilan County in terms of source of stress, personal factors and social aspects of job stress, strategies of coping with such stress, and the necessary supporting measures. The main sources of stress of female junior high school teachers include pressure to face deviant behavior of students, excessive demand and negligence of student parents, interpersonal pressure, the pressure of classroom management, and the overloading pressure of playing the role of ‘teacher’. Personal factors consist of family and marital status, and the relationship between school experience and job stress; whereas social factors include the close relationship between the role of teacher and women in the society, and job stress. Coping strategies comprise seeking for support and emotional adjustment when facing the pressure from students and parents, self-adaptation and seeking for assistance of third parties when facing interpersonal pressure, and understanding one’s own self, establishing reasonable expectations, and seeking for the support of people of importance when facing the role of women in society. Supporting measures include holding seminars to help making emotional adjustment, implementing a deputy-homeroom teacher system, which can assist in handling complex class affairs, strengthening the bonding between teachers by organizing activities, and recommending teachers’ union or the education authority to introduce teacher advisory unit or social worker at school. Keywords: female teacher, job stress, copying strategy