...Sonya D. Hayes; Erin Anderson; Bradley W. Carpenter Purpose This study centers the reflections of principals across the USA as they navigated the overwhelming stress of closing and reopening schools during a global pandemic. Specifically, the authors explored how school principals addressed self...

...Jason A. Grissom; Susanna Loeb; Hajime Mitani Purpose – Time demands faced by school principals make principals’ work increasingly difficult. Research outside education suggests that effective time management skills may help principals meet job demands, reduce job stress, and improve...

..., three competing theoretical models with variables related to teacher stress or support were tested using structural equation modeling to predict job dissatisfaction and eventual intention to quit. Findings The most parsimonious model revealed that student stressors completely mediated...

...John McCormick; Paul L. Ayres Purpose The purpose of this research was to study teachers' self‐efficacy and occupational stress in the context of a large‐scale curriculum reform in New South Wales, Australia. The study aims to follow up and replicate a study carried out approximately one year...

...Khim Ong Kelly; Shi Yun Angela Ang; Wei Ling Chong; Wei Sheng Hu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the attributes of the performance appraisal system used for primary school teachers in Singapore, and how those attributes affect satisfaction with the appraisal system, stress...

... satisfaction Grievances Stress Australia Workplace Consequently, government reform agendas which intensify the quantity but not the quality of work performed by teachers have the capacity to erode teachers' sense of mastery of their craft (Hargreaves, 1998), increase tension within the workplace...

...John McCormick; Paul L. Ayres; Bernice Beechey Purpose The main research aim was to investigate relationships among teachers' occupational stress, coping, teacher self‐efficacy and relevant teachers' perceptions of curriculum changes in a major educational reform. Design/methodology/approach...

... is more top‐down, executive or does not foster widespread involvement. Reinforcing these findings it was found that where teachers identify the main sources of stress in their schools as lack of support from management, poor leadership and ineffective decision‐making processes, students are much less...

...Sharon Conley; Sherry A. Woosley Educational researchers have long been concerned with role stress among teachers. In education, research on the consequences of such role stress for teachers has largely concerned outcomes valued by individuals such as job satisfaction and reduced stress. Less...

...Tichatonga J. Nhundu A survey of the literature will undoubtedly show that the last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of research studies on occupational stress among educational personnel, and that interest in this area has not abated. Unfortunately, little is known about occupational...

..., overall level of stress felt as an administrator, and total level of coping with stress. Other independent variables were the social support questions, the four stress factors (task‐based, role‐based, conflict‐mediating, and boundary‐spanning), the four coping factors (task‐based, role‐based, conflict...

...Adam E. Nir Attempts to establish a distinction among echelons comprising a centralized national educational system by means of exploring their role perceptions of stress, tension, ambiguity risk and exposure to criticism. Statistical factors are computed and a discriminating procedure is executed...

...John McCormick Presents the results of an analysis of questionnaire and interview data revealing significant differences in occupational stress between groups of public school teachers, in New South Wales, Australia. In particular, emphasizes the importance of differentiating between executive...

...Donald G. Allison Reports the responses of 643 public school principals in Canada to a survey on coping with administrative stress. A factor analysis of responses to the 26 item coping preference scale prepared for this study identified seven coping factors. Lists the ten most popular coping...

...Christopher F. Sharpley; Roisin Reynolds; Alicia Acosta; Jagdish K. Dua Examines how data on job stress, health, anxiety and daily hassle were collected via survey questionnaires from 1,925 staff at Monash University campuses. The sample included academic, general, administrative, technical...

...Adrian Carr A principal who participated in an exploratory study to ascertain the extent and sources of stress among school principals realized the apparent isolation and lack of support felt by a significant number of school principals. Argues that the high incidence of anxiety and depression...

...Jagdish K. Dua All staff at the University of New England were sent a personal particulars form and questionnaires designed to obtain information about job‐related factors which acted as stressors for them, their general stress, their emotional health, and their physical health. Factor analysis...

...Walter H. Gmelch; John S. Burns Seeks to answer the following research questions: What job dimensions are perceived as stressful by department chairs? To what degree do chairs exhibit stress from their dual faculty and administrator roles?What influence does academic discipline have on chair stress...

...Mark G. Borg; Richard J. Riding A sample of 150 school administrators in state primary and secondary schools in Malta completed a self‐administered questionnaire on their perceptions of role‐related stress. About one‐fifth of the respondents found their job as school administrators either very...

... with the stressors. While the general pattern of the results is the same for male and female teachers, some important sex differences are identified. Discusses the implications of these findings for school administration. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Anxiety Burnout Stress Teachers Journal of Educational...