STRESS LEVEL AND ITS INFLUENCING FACTORS AMONG SECONDARY

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to identify the level of stress and the factors that influenced to the stress among secondary school’s teachers. 400 teachers in four states, Johore, Malacca, Negeri Sembilan and Selangor have been chosen as the respondents. The aspects that to be identified were workload, interpersonal relationship, student’s discipline problem and the rules of school. The instrument of this study is questionnaire form. Method used in this study is surveying method and the sampling has been done by cluster random sampling. The reliability of the instrument is 0.8201. The data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science. (SPSS) for Windows. Descriptive statistic in terms of mean and frequency is used to analyze the level of stress. The inference statistic that is t- test and Pearson correlation is used to test the hypothesis. Results showed that the level of stress among secondary school’s teachers were in medium level. The results also showed that there were no significant relation between the stress’ factors and gender. Furthermore, there were significant relation between workload and experience of teaching, age and number of children. The most dominant stress ’ factor was student’s discipline problem