| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東大學 === 社會發展學系碩士班 === 105 === The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship and difference between role conflicts and coping strategies among teachers in Kaohsiung City.
The subjects of this study are the public elementary school teachers in Kaohsiung City. Those teachers are randomly chosen based on the school size. They are required to fill in the survey “Teachers’ Conflict Roles and Coping Strategies”. In the end of the study, 382 valid questionnaires are collected. Then the data is analyzed by methods including descriptive statistics, standard deviation, T-test, single factor variance analysis, Pearson product difference correlation, and multiple regression analysis.
The main conclusions are as follows:
First, in terms of the role conflict awareness, the primary school teachers feel the highest level of conflict among “different professional roles”.
Second, the teachers frequently apply coping strategies, the most commonly used one is "rational thinking" approach.
Third, the main cause of the role conflict is "students’ parents".
Fourth, the teachers have higher awareness of role conflict provided that they are women, working as teachers and administrative staffs at the same time, having working experience between 11 to 15 years, the school size is between 13-36 classes and/or more than 37 classes.
Five, there is higher possibility for teachers to apply coping strategies provided that they are married, the age is less than thirty years old, having obtained the master’s degree, having working experience between 11 to 15 years, the school size is between 13-36 classes.
Six, the higher awareness of the role conflict, the higher possibility for the teachers to apply coping strategies.
Seven, there exists positive correlation between the role conflict and the frequency of applying coping strategies.
In conclusion, this study mainly focuses on seven background variables to understand the relationship between role conflict and coping strategies. Therefore, it is suggested that future researchers add different research variables to make the study more comprehensive.
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