Occupational stress among secondary school teachers: a study in Marudi

Irene Hii Chin, Yee (2019) Occupational stress among secondary school teachers: a study in Marudi. [Final Year Project Report] (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Occupational stress is a hot issue that being concerned by the whole world. Almost every worker suffers from the problem of stress and it brings effects towards the employee. Recently, the problem of teachers who has encounter with the problem of occupational stress achieved the critical level. Most of the teachers feel stressful in their job due to the variety of reasons. The aim of the research is to investigate the occupational stress among the secondary school teachers. The area that research want to find the insight are causes of occupational stress among the secondary school teachers, the effects of stress towards the teachers, the perceptions of teacher about the occupational stress and the coping strategies to deal with stress. The sample was the secondary school teachers at SMK Marudi, Marudi. The research instrument that being used for the data collection is interview questionnaire. The finding of the research show that all the secondary school teacher suffer from occupational stress. Based on the analysis, the main causes of occupational stress is heavy workload and student with discipline problem. The poor working condition and career development did not cause the teachers feel stress. The finding also shows that the occupational stress give the effects toward the physical, psychological and quality of teaching of the teachers. Most of the teachers being affected by the occupational stress by suffering from insomnia, become hottemper and low quality of teaching. The respondents also give their perceptions regarding stress in their career path. Most of the teachers think that the government offers them the stress management program and they all has suggest which authority should help the teachers to cope with stress. At the same time, most of the respondents manage time to cope with stress as the coping strategies. The respondents also get emotional support from others and discuss their problem with their closed persons to reduce stress. While, the teachers also doing exercise to release stress and calm their mind.

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