[[alternative]]A Study on the Job Stress and Coping Strategies of Junior High School Principals

[[abstract]]The purpose of this research was to study the present situation of the job stress and its coping strategy.and the interrelationship between them of junior high school principals in twenty counties in Taiwan area—except those in Taipei City, Kaohsiung City and Penhu County. First, through document research, the researcher tried to explain the meanings and theories of the job stress and its coping strategy of junior high school principals as well as the relating researches. Secondly, the researcher himself made ”The Questionnaire on Job Stress and its Coping Strategy of Junior High School” to make the survey. Stratified quota sampling was adopted in this research and 340 junior high school principals were sampled as the subjects. After questionnaire survey, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe’s method ,and Person’s product-moment correlation were applied to analyze the data. The research findings were as following: 1. The level of the perception of job stress was middle to low for junior high school principals. 2. Most of the junior high school principals could apply appropriate coping strategy to their job stress. 3. In the aspect of job stress, “stress from inside institutions” annoyed the principals the most. 4. In the aspect of stress coping strategy, “rational thinking” model was applied the most. 5. The entire“Job stress” and the entire “stress coping strategy” did not achieve apparent and positive relationship. The suggestions of this research are: 1. Educational authorities should distribute each principal’s workload equally, decrease their workload except to develop school affairs, review the welfare system of school staffs, and accelerate the study and modification of the norms of school affairs. 2. Junior high principals should proceed professional development, establish well human relationship and public relationship, and apply all kinds of stress coping strategy. 3. The future researchers will enlarge the sample size and adopt qualitative and quantitative research method at the same time.