Open AccessThree-dimensional Determinants of Job Stress among Pakistani School Teachers
Author(s) -
Shahid Hussain,
Asia Zulfiqar,
Uzma Shehzadi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
sir syed journal of education and social research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2706-8285
pISSN - 2706-6525
DOI - 10.36902/sjesr-vol2-iss2-2019(144-160
Subject(s) - job stress , cluster sampling , school teachers , sample (material) , stress (linguistics) , psychology , job attitude , job control , regression analysis , control (management) , job performance , applied psychology , job satisfaction , social psychology , mathematics education , statistics , mathematics , medicine , engineering , computer science , environmental health , work (physics) , population , philosophy , artificial intelligence , linguistics , chemistry , chromatography , mechanical engineering
This study investigates the determinants of job stress among Pakistani school teachers. It was based upon influential stress models including job control, effort-reward imbalance and workplace resources. A sample of 297 teachers teaching at different levels in both public and private schools was selected by using cluster sampling technique. The sample covered a wide range of teachers with diverse backgrounds. A self-developed questionnaire consisting of 20 items was used to collect the data. A simple linear regression was applied to analyze the data. The study found that all three factors are significant determinants of job stress among Pakistani school teachers. Job demand-control accounts for 31% of teachers’ job stress; whereas 23% and 17% of job stress is due to job demands-resources and effort-reward imbalance respectively. When all these three factors were seen collectively, they constituted 40.5% of teachers’ job stress.