Volume 18, No. 6, 2021
A Correlational Investigation Of Resilience And Job Stress Among Public And Private School Teachers At Secondary Level
Almas Latif , Dr. Riasat Ali , Dr. Saqib Shahzad , Dr. Sajjad Hussain , Muhammad Haroon Manj , Sadaf Akram
Abstract
Job stress in the current world is enormous because of multiple factors, which include competition, extra expectations, changes in curriculum, changes in educational audits, along with domestic reasons, and all these directly contribute into the stress of teachers. Furthermore, these stresses demand for teachers’ resilience abilities that enables them to cope with the changing demands or adjust with. This study investigated teachers’ job stress and their resilience capacity in public and private secondary school of district Mardan. The objectives concentrated on the investigation of jobs stress level and resilience abilities of public and private secondary school teachers along with the relationship between these two study variables. Following a quantitative correlational explanatory research design a sample of 291 respondents were selected (Public = 179, Private = 112) through stratified sampling techniques. The data were collected on two questionnaires (Brief Resilience Scale and Job Stress) and were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistic through SPSS. The results showed that private school teachers experience more job stress in term of job demands, job control, and they were as similar the public-school teachers in support and job satisfaction. Furthermore, the resilience skills of public and private school teachers were the same average level. The need of training for the professional development of teachers to meet the job demands were recommended for the authorities.
Pages: 8394-8403
Keywords: Job Stress; Job Demand; Resilience Skills; Job Satisfaction; School Teachers