Teacher Stress: An Examination of Factors Influencing Teaching Performance In Rural Elementary Schools

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The elements studied are the relationship between stress, self-efficacy and teaching performance, comparison between level of stress and self-efficacy with genders and prediction on factors influencing teaching performance. A total of 102 subjects (20 male and 82 females) were selected from rural elementary schools in Jasin district. Results found indicated that the stress faced by the teachers has a weak correlation with self-efficacy and teaching performance. The results showed that the efficacy has significant low positive correlations with the time management (r = .004) (p<0.01) and work-related stress (r = .035). PTK result has a weak negative correlation with emotional manifestation (-.229). Level of stress with the factor of gender, the results indicate that only male differs significantly in terms of discipline and motivation in comparison with female (t = -2.471) (p = 0.015). Result also pointed out that emotional [R2 = 0.053, F(1,100) = 5.559, p>0.05] and fatigue manifestation [R2 = 0.038, F(1,99) = 3.922, p>0.05) has significant influence on the teaching performance of the teacher. The implication of this study was to understand factors and manifestation of stress and help the educators in dealing with this phenomenon.

Stream: Educational Leadership and Management

Paper: , Teacher Stress

I am a lecturer from Faculty of Cognitive Science and Human Development, University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). I started my career since 2006 as a tutor and later was appointed as a lecturer in July 2008. I got my Master in Clinical Psychology in the year 2008 and Post Graduate Diploma in Health Psychology (2006), which are both granted from University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and my bachelor degree was in Cognitive Science, UNIMAS. I am currently teaching in the psychological field and my research interests are in the field of clinical psychology as well as clinical neuropsychology.