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Time Management as a Stressor for Helping Professionals: Implications for Employment
Author(s) -
HAWKINS FRANK,
KLAS LEE
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.1997.tb00451.x
Subject(s) - stressor , psychology , welfare , persistence (discontinuity) , stress management , time management , social psychology , medical education , applied psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , management , geotechnical engineering , political science , law , economics , engineering
This study summarizes and compares the findings of 5 studies completed between 1984 and 1994 that dealt with the factors that cause stress for 4 groups of helping professionals: regular classroom teachers, special education teachers, nurses in a tertiary care hospital, and social workers in child welfare. Time and its effective management proved to be the most significant stressor category for all groups. Possible explanations for the persistence of time management concerns in these helping professions, and possible implications for employment counselors, both as helpers and information providers to those who seek to enter such professions, are proposed.