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Occupational Stress and Satisfaction in Teaching
Author(s) -
Borg Mark G.,
Riding Richard J.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192910170306
Subject(s) - absenteeism , psychology , job satisfaction , maltese , context (archaeology) , stress (linguistics) , school teachers , occupational stress , medical education , social psychology , applied psychology , pedagogy , medicine , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , biology
Abstract Teacher stress, job satisfaction, absenteeism, career intention, career commitment and self‐image as teacher were investigated in a context which allowed many of the characteristics of an educational system to be incorporated in the design. A questionnaire survey of 545 teachers in Maltese secondary schools revealed that some of the demographic characteristics of the sample were related to self‐reported teacher stress, job satisfaction and career commitment. Results also showed that teachers who reported greater stress were less satisfied with teaching, reported greater frequency of absences and a greater number of total days absent, were more likely to leave teaching (career intention), and less likely to take up a teaching career again (career commitment).