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VOL. 5, ISSUE 2 (2023)
Evaluation of occupational stress among principals and teachers of public senior secondary schools in Katagum zone of Bauchi state
Authors
Gambo Alhaji Danladi, Adama Jummai Mohammed
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate occupational stress among
principals and teachers of public senior secondary schools in Katagum Zone of
Bauchi State. The area studied consisted of 52 public senior secondary schools
under the jurisdiction of Katagum Zonal Education Office Azare. The population
consisted of 902 academic staff out of which 850 represented teaching staff and
52 principals. Through a stratified simple random sampling, 269 principals and
teachers of public senior secondary schools were served with a literature-based
self-developed questionnaire. The questionnaire was earlier subjected to pilot
testing and was discovered to be valid with internal consistency and
reliability. The questionnaire comprises six each of research questions and
hypotheses and consisted of two sections; Section A and Section B. Section A is
the general section meant for gathering demographic data. Section B is divided
into clusters namely Cluster B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 and B6. Clusters B1 to B3 were
for principals. Clusters B4 to B6 were for teachers. Each of the clusters
consisted of 10 items or variables meant to elicit information on the causes
and effects of occupational stress among the subjects studied. A 4-point Likert
Scale was deployed among the items contained in each cluster. 268 completed
questionnaires were eventually retrieved (52 principals and 216 teachers). A
framework of cross-section analysis was deployed using descriptive and
inferential statistics tools embodied in IBM SPSS Version 20. It was discovered
that the overall mental stress for principals stood at 3.22; while, that of
teachers stood at 3.07. On the other hand, the overall mean of physical stress
for principals stood at 2.80, while that of teachers stood at 2.81. Therefore,
the overall means relative to mental and physical stress for both principals
and teachers have surpassed the mean yardstick of 2.5. Since the respective p-valves
have surpassed the alpha level of 0.05 (t), the findings revealed that there
was no significant difference between principals and teachers on both mental
and physical stress variables. Therefore, stress variables constituted sources
of mental and physical stress to both principals and teachers under the area studied.
Based on correlation analysis, all the relationships between the variables
indicated the existence of a significant linear relationship. All the variables
recorded moderate strength of association except those of principals from both
urban and rural public senior secondary schools recorded a high correlation
coefficient (0.71) under the physical and stress symptoms.
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Pages:24-27
How to cite this article:
Gambo Alhaji Danladi, Adama Jummai Mohammed "Evaluation of occupational stress among principals and teachers of public senior secondary schools in Katagum zone of Bauchi state". International Journal of Educational Research and Studies, Vol 5, Issue 2, 2023, Pages 24-27
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