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An Exploratory Study of Stress in a British University
Author(s) -
Daniels Kevin
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2273.1994.tb01646.x
Subject(s) - stressor , psychology , exploratory research , stress (linguistics) , applied psychology , principal (computer security) , scale (ratio) , occupational stress , clinical psychology , social psychology , sociology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , anthropology , computer science , operating system
This paper reports an exploratory study of stress and psychological well‐being in British University staff. Unlike previous studies of stress in University staff, this study examines stress not only in relation to lecturing staff, but also research and support staff. Principal components analysis of a fifteen item stressor scale revealed two orthogonal dimensions, relating to quantitative overload stressors and role stressors respectively. Both were found to be related to a measure of psychological well‐being. Differences in these stressor factors were found between the various types of university employee; academic staff were found to report more work load and managerial stressors, but reported fewer role stressors.