Stress in One Occupational Group: Teachers

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• Personal Author:
  Schonfeld I
• Description:
  The factors which may adversely affect teachers' psychological well being during the first 3 years of their careers were identified. Newly employed women teachers in the New York metropolitan area were followed in a longitudinal study. A matched comparison group of nonteachers was also studied. Adverse effects were monitored using measures of depressive symptoms, psychophysiological symptoms such as headaches or stomach aches, self esteem, job satisfaction, and motivation to teach in the future. The most important predictor of psychological outcomes was found to be the Episodic Stressor Scale. General support, supervisor support, and colleague support were found to have beneficial effects. The behavior of students, including physically assaultive, excessively verbally assaultive and disruptive behavior, was found to have a negative effect on morale. The author recommends that administrative units not permit students who are inclined to fight, to bring weapons to school, or who threaten harm to teachers or other students to sit in regular classrooms. They should be educated elsewhere. More effective strategies are also needed to handle the disruptive students and this requires the collaboration of teachers and supervisors. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Mental Disorders Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Violence Workplace
• Keywords:
  Attitude Emotional-stress Job-stress NIOSH-Grant Physical-stress Psychological-disorders Psychological-factors Teaching Violent-behavior Workplace-violence
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-67
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00231900
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB97-104855
• Citation:
  School of Education, City College of New York, New York 1995 Feb; :1-67
• Contact Point Address:
  Social and Psychological Fdns the City College of Cuny Convent Avenue at 138Th St New York, New York 10031
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1995
• NORA Priority Area:
  Psychologic Disorders
• Performing Organization:
  City College of New York, New York, New York
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19880601
• Source Full Name:
  School of Education, City College of New York, New York
• End Date:
  20010331
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7fe0e8fa90e6428fe46905f006cbbbf1e5c8155ef2214475bb68b4ed9f166761cdcdf3791c4cc85403bdd8575e1e451239dfd25e912e162f5125ee3ca35b9d53
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/217869/cdc_217869_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.48 MB ]