A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL STRESS LEVEL AMONG PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTOR TEACHERS IN THE TECHIMAN SOUTH CIRCUIT

Autoři

  • Winifred Ansah-Hughes Department of Education, Valley View University, Techiman Campus, P.O. Box 183, Techiman, Ghana
  • Isaac Owusu-Darko Department of Mathematics Education, Valley View University, Techiman Campus, P. O. Box 183, Techiman, Ghana
  • Patricia Ndiwe Pensan Acheampong Department of Education, Valley View University, Techiman Campus, P.O. Box 183, Techiman, Ghana

Klíčová slova:

private, occupational stress, public, gender

Abstrakt

Occupational stress is a serious health problem to the individual worker both physically and psychologically. It equally effects organizations and even the nations in terms of productivity and financial losses. Occupational stress has in recent times received close attention in America and Western Europe as is evident from the growing number of literature available and the wellness programs being developed for employees in these continents, but it does not appear to be so in developing countries as Ghana. Occupational stress is common to all occupations but it could be disastrous for any nation if it remains unchecked especially in the teaching field. The teacher is the kingpin upon which every education revolves. The issue is that, there are indications of above average occupational stress in some Ghanaian teachers; but exactly how much of occupational stress is being experienced? This study set out to examine overall occupational stress, find out the level of occupational stress among private and public sector teachers in the Techiman South Circuit in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. Administering the Weiman Occupational Stress Scale to a sample of 88 workers drawn from the population of 160 established that teachers of the Techiman South Circuit experience above average levels of occupational stress with the public sector, females and Junior High School showing the higher levels when compared to the private sector, males and Senior High School counterparts respectively. Also supporting the Weiman occupational stress scale, a chi-square analyses showed that there is an association between gender status and occupational stress and an association between institutional type and occupational stress.

Reference

Betz N. E. & Fitzgerald L. F. (1987). The career psychology of women. Jovanovich, San Diego.

Ellis, A., Gordon, J., Neenan, P. & Palmer, S. (2001). Stress Counselling: A Rational Emotive Behaviour Approach. London. Continuum

Fraenkel, J. R. & Wallen, N.E. (2000). How to design and evaluate research in education, (4thed.). Boston, Massachusetts: McGraw-Hill.

Gall, N., Gall, P., Joyce, D. & Walter, R. (1996). Education Research: An introduction.

Hafen, B. Q., Karren, K. J., Frandsen, K.J. and Smith, N.L. (1996) Mind/body health: The effects of attitudes, emotions, and relationships. Needham Heights, Allyn & Bacon Publishers Inc.

Kaur, S. (2001). Comparative study of Occupational Stress among teachers of Private and Government School in Relation to Age, Gender and Teaching Experience. International Journal of Educational Planning & Administration; Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 157-160.

Kosslyn, S. M. & Rosenberg, R. S. (2001). Psychology: The Brain, The Person, The world. New York. Allyn & Bacon.

Krejcie, R. V. & Morgan, D.W. (1970). Determining sample size for research activities. Educational and Psychological Measurement 30,607-610. Kyriacou, C. (2001). Teacher Stress: Directions for future research. Educational Research, 53(1): 27-35.

Luthans, F. (2005). Organizational Behaviour: Stress and Conflict (10thed.). NewYork. McGraw-Hill.

MacDonald, W. (2003). The Impact of Job Demands and Workload on Stress and Fatigue: Australian Psychologist, 38: 102–117.

Myers, D. G. (2008). Social Psychology: Interpersonal Attraction and Close Relationships. New York. McGraw-Hill. New York Longman Publishers.

Passer, M.W. & Smith, R.E. (2001). Psychology: Frontier and Application. New York. McGraw-Hill.

Sarah, M. (2000). Stress in Young People. New York. Continuum

Sauter, S., Murphy, L., Colligan, M., Swanson, N., Hurrell, J., & Scharf F. (1999). Stress at work. The American Psychologist: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

Selye, H., (1976). The Stress of Life, New York: McGraw Hill. In Luthans, F. (2005). Organizational Behaviour: Stress and Conflict. (10thed.). New York. McGraw-Hill.

U.S Department of labor,(1990). Building a Quality Workforce, Washington D. C.

Unger, R. K. & Crawford, M. E. (1992). Women and Gender: A Feminist Psychology. New York. McGraw-Hill.

Weiten, W. & Lloyd, M. A. (1997). Psychology Applied to Modern Life: Adjustment in the 90s. Boston. Brooks Publishing Company.

Stažení

Publikováno

2017-03-02

Číslo

Vol 2, No 1 (2017)

Sekce

Articles

Licence

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

 

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

 

  1. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

 

  1. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).