Factors Affecting the Job Stress of Female Secondary School Teachers in Johor Bahru

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220304.026How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Job Stress; Female Secondary School Teachers; Workload; Students’ Misconduct; Resource Constraints; Interpersonal Relationship

Abstract

The phenomenon of stress is a common problem in human life that is increasingly busy in carrying out daily tasks. The increasing rate of work stress poses tremendous challenges to well-being in the work environment around the world. The study aimed to identify the factors that influence pressure of female secondary school teachers in Johor Bahru. There are six objectives involved; to determine the teachers’ job stress level, the relationship between workload and teachers’ job stress, the relationship between students’ misconduct and teachers’ job stress, the relationship between time and resource constraints with teachers’ job stress, the relationship between interpersonal relationship with teachers’ job stress, and to determine the main factors of teachers’ job stress. Respondents consisted of 149 female teachers of five secondary school teachers in Johor Bahru. Descriptive analysis, correlation, and regression analysis were carried out using IBM SPSS. The findings found that the level of job stress of female secondary school teachers in Johor Bahru is at a moderate level. The results of the study also showed that workload, time and resource constraints, and interpersonal relationship are significantly related to job stress. However, the factor of students’ misconduct has found not greatly influenced job stress among female secondary school teachers in Johor Bahru. Findings of this study provide insight to the top management of school to provide a better psychosocial work environment so that teachers’ work stress can be reduced.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Faridah Marmut
AU  - Noraini Rusbadrol
AU  - Siti Aisyah Panatik
AU  - Ana Haziqah A Rashid
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/03/28
TI  - Factors Affecting the Job Stress of Female Secondary School Teachers in Johor Bahru
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference on Gender Studies (WCGS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 185
EP  - 192
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220304.026
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220304.026
ID  - Marmut2022
ER  -