職務스트레스의 社會支援에 관한 硏究

Abstract

영문초록 포함|Today, we are living in a rapidly industrializing society with a high growth of economy in which everybody is experiencing the daily increasing stress. This stress can be stated as one of the factors that greatly influences human beings' physical growth, change, development and accomplishment at home or in the workplace. Therefore, I have studied and tried to prove the relationship between the perception level of job stress and the support of society which is the effect of that relationship on teachers for the purpose aiding teacher personnel management in the Catholic school organization. The job conditions and personal conditions along with other variables such as one's personality, sex, age, educational background, career, and job position affect the stress level. Accordingly, it is true that a unified concept of job stress is not generalized even among various types of studies concerning stress. Nevertheless, studies continue on the adjustment of social support to reduce the job stress level in connection with on-going efforts to minimize the reverse function of stress. This study was made on the basis of both theory and the analysis by means of questionnaires for the purpose of suggesting a relationship between the perception state of job stress and the adjusting effects of social support. The theoretic study was systematically based on the already existing studied and the actual proving analysis was done by means of a package of scientific social statistics through questionnaires given to teachers from 12 Catholic schools in the Seoul and Kyungki-do area. As we can see from the result of this study, school teachers suffer from a high degree of job stress and the support of senior teachers (administration) greatly affects the level of stress and the selfsatisfaction of the job. Threfore, it is considered that administrators' support is very important in reducing job stress and in improving job performance. Based on this study, it is considered that every school needs to make an effort in several areas to accomplish proper personnel management. First, in order to maintain the physical and psychological health of the teachers who generally show a high level of stress, a more detailed study of the various factors of stress is required and ways to solve the problems caused by stress must be explored. It is important to study the factors in the school organization such as teacher work load and the ambiguity of the role, organization climate of the teacher. It is a well-known phenomenon that work load of teachers in Korea is heavy. This is due to the fact that education in Korea is geared to passing examinations for entrance into the next level of education. Also, the inconsistent policy of the Ministry of Education adds more difficulties to the atmosphere of school organization. Second, the most important things needed in this situauion are a spirit of innovation and effort on the part of school administrators to remedy the causes of stress in teachers. Therefore, administrators need to be educated and trained regarding job stress and its counter measures in order to aid in remedying and reducing the perception level of job stress. Third, the philosophy and the purpose of school management need to be focused on the improvement of life style at work. Fourth, the industrial democratization at work, privatization of educational administration in schools, training programs in reducing and preventing job stress and related counter measures for management should be pursued. It is thought that efficient performance on the job in the field of education will be enhanced by the realization of the above-mentioned points. The-following limitations were found in the result of this study: * There is the possibility of insufficient reflection on the importance or character of job stress since the teachers responding to the questionnairres were suffering from shortage of time. * A more in-depth study would have been made if the questionnaire had dealt with elements of apparent physical phenomenons as a result of job stress in addition to the questions appearing in the questionnaire.