ERIC Number: ED295335
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 20
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Stress and Perception of the Level of Structuration in Schools by the Teachers.
Fortin, Jean-Claude; Boucher, R. Claude
A survey was administered to 510 high school teachers, and completed by 302 French-speaking teachers (56 percent) in the Ottawa-Hull (Canada) region to examine their views regarding the degree of structuration in their school organization, to determine the relationship of these views to their degrees of stress, and to determine if a greater degree of stress related to structuration was experienced by one particular age group. One would suppose that people employed in bureaucratic organizations would have a greater degree of stress due to the organizational structure. The six aspects of bureaucracy addressed in the survey instruments included hierarchy of authority, division of labor, presence of rules, procedural specifications, impersonality, and technical competence. Among the three questionnaires used in the study, the School Organizational Inventory assessed bureaucratic patterns in schools and the Teacher Stress questionnaire assessed the degree of teacher stress. According to the respondents, no significant relationship existed between the degree of teacher stress and the six aspects of bureaucracy addressed in the survey instruments. However, the survey revealed a high degree of teacher stress related to discipline and student behavior, regardless of structuration. A comparison of age groups to the degrees of stress revealed that teachers aged 35 to 45 had a higher degree of stress than the other age groups. The document includes 4 tables and 28 references. (RG)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada (Ottawa)
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