TITLE:
Occupational Stress Relation to Tenure and Educational Level in Primary School Teachers in Greece
AUTHORS:
Michael Galanakis, Eleni Alexiou, Angeliki Androutsopoulou, Ioulia-Fanouria Chiotaki, Ioanna Mouselimidou, Margarita-Theoni Mylona-Fountzoula, Christina Papadopoulou, Sofia Tsirozidi
KEYWORDS:
Job Stress, Primary School Teachers, Postgraduate, Years of Service, Stress Sources, Greece, Tenure, Educational Level
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.11 No.6,
June
4,
2020
ABSTRACT: The teaching profession is constantly
becoming even more demanding, with miscellaneous challenges and continuous
constitutional changes. Stress in teachers is a reference point of study at a
global level, as its rates are in-creasing with a variety of negative side
effects. The need to study stress lies in the influence it has, both on the
individual level and in the educational process itself. The present study in a
sample of 167 teachers of all specialties from public primary schools in
Greece, attempts to link educational level and tenure to job stress. Results
showed higher stress levels among teachers who have not received a Master’s
Degree, while tenure did not play a significant role. It seems that stressors
in the working environment hold the most crucial role in predicting stress
levels. In practical terms, therefore, the overriding importance of specific
interventions in the dominant sectors, which put stress on teachers, is
emphasized. The analysis of applications is mentioned further in detail in the
discussion section.