The strategies of stress reaction among teachers

Abstract

Introduction. According to the recent studies stress is a dangerous factor that affects teachers and the people who interact with them. Every day a teacher is forced to deal with negative situations that can be confronted through different methods: overcoming, avoiding, mitigating the effects and assumption. Aim of the study. Emphasizing the strategies of stress reaction(answer) among teachers. Materials and methods. This study was realized with 53 teachers, using a questionnaire composed of 4 standardized tests. Here we present the results of one test “The Ways of Coping Questionnaire” (Folkman and Lazarus), with open access for users), validated in our study with coefficient Cronbach alpha=0.846. Results. Overcoming all stressful situation can be realized through 8 coping strategies have been proposed by Lazarus. The pilot study in assessing the aspect of stress at the teachers highlighting that 89% of them have a medium potential of adaptation. However, from 53 teachers-6(11%) can deal with stressful situation due to a high potential of adaptation, where we can remark that teacher with higher education exceed stress easier at early age. The most used strategies to confront stress is- planful problem solving (75%). The most common of them are: selfcontrolling (45%), seeking social support (53%), accepting responsibility (45%). The teachers with aged between 50 and more also apply positive reappraisal. According to work experience in feature of strategies we notice that teachers with the didactic experience less 1 year – apply first of all seeking social support, between 2-5 years often use accepting responsibility and planful problem solving, 6-10 and 11-20 years- planful problem solving, self-controlling, those with 20 years and more work experience use planful problem solving, seeking social support. Conclusions. A large number of teachers (88.7%) manifest a tensional coping. That is way, it is necessary to research this problem on a large lot of teachers.