Title: Vocational high school teachers’ perceptions on job stress factors in Turkey
Abstract: This study examined how frequently the teachers at the vocational high schools experienced stress due to the job related stress factors - stressors - between the teachers teaching vocational courses and the other teachers teaching courses such as math, physics, biology, literature, foreign languages etc., and whether the frequency of stress, which the teachers experienced was gender and marital status related. The data collected from a sample of 384 teachers from 12 schools serving vocational education in the centre of Afyon, Usak, Balikesir cities in Turkey, by means of a questionnaire developed by researchers. The questionnaire developed by factor analyses asked the participants to score their job stress levels of the variables related to the organizational job stressors: (a) supervision and career development, (b) salary and social facilities, (c) interpersonal relations, (d) working conditions, (e) work itself, (f) school policy, and (g) school environment. The data collected were analyzed by t-test for equality of means. As a result of the analysis, all the teachers reported high job stress in salary, social facilities, school policy, and school environment; medium in supervision and career development, working conditions, work itself; and finally, low in interpersonal relations. Additionally, the teachers teaching vocational courses reported higher job stress than teachers teaching cultural courses, women higher than men, and married teachers higher than single ones. Finally, some ideas about what should be done in helping teachers handle with stress due to job related factors were suggested.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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