...Eleanor Su-Keene; Jenna Doane; John Oluwaseun Ajamobe Purpose Principals’ capacity for school improvement efforts is influenced by their leadership self-efficacy which is particularly susceptible to psychological stress. While the impact of work-stress on self-efficacy is a global issue among...

...), political intentions and internal conflicts (Scott, 2014). These crises often compromise schools’ legitimacy (Coombs, 2007) and affect institutional stability, including their norms, values and traditions (Scott, 2014). During a crisis, school leaders experience significant pressure and stress in ensuring...

... that teachers' EI levels and display of appropriate EL strategies significantly reduce their stress, anxiety, burnout and psychosomatic complaints (PSCs). The final model shows that the deep acting strategy, which includes more adaptive emotion regulation strategies, improves teachers’ affective and physical...

... affected by unrealistic demands and stress. The purpose of this paper is to argue that key performance indicators (KPIs) and performance management are detrimental in the higher education sector, as they cause undue stress which impacts negatively on an essential criterion of academia, cognitive thinking...

... effects of stressors and social support on individuals’ health and well‐being. Originality/value This study provides new insight into academic work stress by systematically examining the effects of workplace social support on professors’ work stress experience. This study also extends our current...

... multiple regression analysis. Ireland Academic staff Stress Burnout Job satisfaction Accounting and finance academics In light of the second objective of the study, the survey instrument also gathered data from respondents regarding background variables, workload and job...

...Niharika Doble; M.V. Supriya Purpose Student life stress, student family conflict and student life balance are issues that are scarcely researched. This paper aims to develop a scale for assessing the concept of student life balance. Design/methodology/approach The study evaluated a 54‐item...

... for the challenges of modern societies. At the same time, increasing rates of teacher stress and burnout are a cause for concern (Howard and Johnson, 2004). Special efforts should thus be directed at protecting individuals who are especially important for maintaining the schools' operations. Empowerment...

...John McCormick; Kerry Barnett Purpose It may be argued that some shared psychological mechanisms (attribution) and structures (schemas) are likely to play a role in how individuals perceive stress. This paper seeks to propose and test some hypothesised relationships between stress attribution...

...John J. De Nobile; John McCormick Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate relationships between biographical variables of gender, age experience and employment position and occupational stress of staff members in Catholic primary schools. Design/methodology/approach Survey data...

...Orly Michael; Deborah Court; Pnina Petal Purpose This research aims to examine the impact of job stress on the organizational commitment of a random, representative sample of coordinators in the Israeli educational mentoring organization PMP. Organizational commitment, including affective...

...Kwok Sai Wong; Wai Hing Cheuk Purpose One objective of the present study was to explore how stressful kindergarten principals, as leaders and managers of their schools, found their work to be, and if such job‐related stress was associated with negative emotions and job (dis)satisfaction. Another...

... to arrive at a grounded theoretical model of the graduate student experience. Findings suggest that stress is at the core of the graduate student experience and is amplified by conflicting demands and internal conflict unique to this type of student. Additionally, international graduate students appear...

... and third‐level teaching. Essentially, my considerations originate from practical managerial and teaching experience within schools. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Time management Organizational change Stress Conflict Bureaucracy Pressure, pushing down on me/pressing down on you (Queen...

...Saul Neves de Jesus; Joseph Conboy The question of teacher motivation is of paramount concern for educational leaders and managers. Both the commonly observed deficiency in teacher motivation and the abundance of teacher stress are serious problems that can be mitigated through teacher education...

... UP Limited 2001 Health Stress Teachers Schools In August 1996 all INT subjects were invited to attend a presentation of the interim report on the project based on the initial screening results. The group results were presented by the Medical Director from HBA Health Management...

... relationship exists between stress and each of the following variables: job satisfaction, wellbeing, and performance. Second, it seeks to determine if OH mediates these relationships. Results of the study highlighted the relationship between stress and wellbeing. Although OH did not mediate any of the three...

...Golnaz Sadri Attempts to identify some important variables that contribute to occupational and academic stress and to estimate their direct and indirect effects on various outcome measures (such as mental health, physical health, job satisfaction and scholastic grade point average). Based...

...Paul J. Thornton Data from an ambulatory blood pressure monitor (ABPM), structured close‐quarters observation, personal questionnaires, participant interviews and staff interviews to observe, describe and analyse the physiological, psychological and work stress of primary school principals. Looks...

...Janice T.S. Ho Suggests that although stress research has burgeoned in recent years, little attention has been paid to the relationship between leisure satisfaction, work stress and psychological wellbeing. Presents data from secondary school teachers in a major UK city. A validated teacher stress...