الضغوط النفسية واليات التكيف لدى معلمي المرحلة الثانوية في محافظة رام الله والبيرة
Date
2020-06-03
Authors
سماح وديع عبد الحميد حمودة
Samah Wadea Abed Alhamed Mohammad
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Publisher
Al-Quds University
Abstract
The current study aimed to identify the degree of psychological stress and coping mechanisms for secondary school teachers in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate. The study used the relational destrictive method. To achieve this purpose, and to answer study questions and verify the validity of their hypotheses, a questionnaire on psychological stress among teachers was developed and included (28) items, and they were four axes, namely: administrative pressure among teachers, student pressure faced by the teacher, pressure by the teaching, and pressure Which relationships with colleagues.
And the questionnaire of mechanisms to adapt to psychological stress and included (28) items, distributed on the axis of the mechanisms that can be used with psychological pressure. Its reliability and validity have been verified. The sample reached (320) from secondary school teachers in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate.The results of the study showed a set of results, including: The degree of psychological stress among secondary school teachers in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate was medium, where the arithmetic average of it reached (3.34), and the results of the level of mechanisms for adapting to psychological pressure among secondary school teachers in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate Medium, with a mean (3.49).
The results showed that there are statistically significant differences in the degree of psychological pressure among secondary school teachers and coping mechanisms in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate according to the variable of years of experience, while there are no statistically significant differences according to variables: gender, number of children, type of housing, educational qualification, age Years of experience, specialization, marital status, income, place of residence, number of classes a teacher teaches.
The results also showed that there were statistically significant differences in the level of coping mechanisms with psychological stress among secondary school teachers in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate according to the variable of the place of residence, while there were no statistically significant differences according to variables: gender, number of children, type of housing, educational qualification , Age, specialization, marital status, income, place of residence, number of classes the teacher teaches.
The study came out with several recommendations, the most important of which are: Establishing programs and activities that include providing psychological, social and economic support to all secondary school teachers in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate, to include all teachers from all disciplines.
The study also recommended that the Ministry of Education should pay attention to the mental health of teachers in general, and secondary school teachers in particular by forming a specialized team to study the psychological state of them and provide the necessary reports and recommendations to ensure their mental health.