Stress Factors in the Professional Activities of Romanian Teachers

AbstractStress manifests itself through different degrees of intensity and frequency. It has been noticed that the burnout occurs more and more often with people that work in fields involving human relationships. It affected people who become emotionally involved and invest a great deal of psychological and physical effort into their work and consider that the results of their labour are not at the expected level.It is known that professional stress also occurs in teaching.Researching the problem of professional stress in the education system is very important for mitigating the negative effects that stressors have on the quality of teaches’ activities and their health.The conditions in which teachers conduct their professional activity are one of overburden generated by the countless roles that they have to assume, the great number of pupils in a classroom, the less than desirable behaviour of some pupils, the school atmosphere etc. These are some of the stress-generating factors