A Research on Relationships among Teachers' Lifestyles, Job Stress and Leisure Participation in Kaohsiung City Elementary Schools

碩士 === 大葉大學 === 工業工程與管理學系 === 102 === Education is the foundation of a nation, and teachers are key determinants of a nation’s educational success. Technological advances and economic development are changing the way we live and work. In a constantly changing educational environment, a teacher’s job...

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Main Authors: Chien-Ya Hung, 洪千雅
Other Authors: Chuar-Yuan Lin
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/czjec2
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Summary:碩士 === 大葉大學 === 工業工程與管理學系 === 102 === Education is the foundation of a nation, and teachers are key determinants of a nation’s educational success. Technological advances and economic development are changing the way we live and work. In a constantly changing educational environment, a teacher’s job is more than teaching alone, it also involves completing administrative duties that are independent of teaching. Therefore, teachers encounter an increasing amount of stress. By understanding the current status of teachers’ lifestyles, we sought to effectively alleviate teachers’ job stress by suggesting that teachers participate in recreational activities. In this study, we aimed to understand teachers’ lifestyles, job stress, and leisure participation by conducting a survey to collect related data. We sampled teachers from Kaohsiung City elementary schools and distributed 470 questionnaires, of which 448 valid questionnaires were retrieved. The data were processed by using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way analysis of variance, cluster analysis, and correlational analysis. Based on the analytical results, the following conclusions were obtained: The teachers’ lifestyles are predominantly family-oriented, job stress primarily stems from workload, and leisure activities are mostly media-related. The teachers’ lifestyles are positively correlated to leisure participation and negatively correlated to the workload dimension of job stress; lastly, job stress is negatively correlated to media-related leisure activities.