The Study on Sources of Occupational Stress of Primary and Secondary School Teachers

This study investigated the feature of primary and secondary school teachers'sources of occupational stress,using the questionnaire of 5525 teachers in Beijing.The results indicated that(1) there were five sources causing teachers'stress,namely,the workload,students achievement,social and school evaluation,teachers'professional development and student misbehaviors,which could satisfactorily explain the variance of the sources of teachers'occupational stress,and(2) the trajectory of occupational stress of teachers with different teaching experience was characterized by a inverse U curve,teachers with 11-15years of teaching getting the highest stress level.(3) The major stress source of primary teachers was students'misbehaviors;while students'achievement,especially the examination stress was the main source that secondary teachers had.