Stress Management Strategies Among School Teachers

Abstract

The school is the greatest tool available to spread information to others. It is the best trainingground to teach individuals to become agents for change and become productive members of the society. The teacher today faces new challenges in the education calling for greater effort from teachers. Teachers as a group are not more mal adjusted than members of other vocations. Problems of adjustment are common to all groups, but every vocation presents certain problems peculiar to itself. Perhaps the prime condition of satisfactory adjustment is that the teachers have confidence in their own competence and that they respect their vocation. The aim of the study was to determine thelevel of stress experienced by school teachers. Each dimension of stress contributed significantly to the overall level of stress experienced by the school teachers. Interventions, such as stress management strategies, can be carried out to reduce stress in the worksite