Chapter 18: Consideration For A Global Approach to Understanding And Preventing Teacher Stress

This chapter argues for a need to link teacher stress research to the general stress literature. Stress has historically been conceptualized in one of three ways: as an external demand, as a transaction between the person and environment, or as a threat to resources. Research presented in this book can be understood in terms of one or more of these models, and it is argued that future scholarship on teacher stress be explicitly connected to existing theories of stress and coping. Because teacher stress is likely to be increasingly viewed as an international phenomenon, this chapter concludes by reviewing how literature on globalization and international psychology informs this topic.