Abstract:
The main purpose of this study is to compare the mental health of teachers who are in high noise schools and low noise schools in five aspects : aggression, needs for achievement: anxiety, emotion and working problems. Another purpose is to investigate the relationship between the mental health of these teachers and the following six variables: sex, ages, years of being bureaucrat years of working in school, qualifications, incomes and official positions. One hundred and ten teachers, 40 men and 70 women, were stratified and randomly drawn from four government secondary schools in Bangkok, which two of them are high noise schools and other are low noise schools. The questionnaires with the reliability coefficient of .88 and which each item was accepted by at least five authorities in psychology and psychiatry were used to collect data. Analysis of variance (p x q factorial design unequal cell frequency) and Duncans Multiple Range Test were conducted to analyse data and the coefficients of multiple correlation were computed to find the relationships between all aspects of teachers mental health and six variables. Result of this study indicated that teachers mental health of both high noise and low noise schools were still sound. However, there are some differences in the mental health of some groups of these teachers as follows: (1) Female teachers in high noise schools have higher anxiety than these in low noise schools ( p < .05) (2) In high noise school, female teachers had more needs for achievement than male teachers (p< .05) (3) Teachers who had been working in high noise school for less than one year, one to five years and more than ten years, had more needs for achievement that those who had need working for six to ten years, And teachers who had been working in low noise schools for six to ten years had also more needs for achievement than those who had been working in high noise schools for six to ten years (p < .05). (4) Teachers in high - noise - schools who graduate with the bachelor degree or lower had more needs for achievement than these who graduated with the master degree of above (p < .05). And teachers in low noise schools who graduated with master degree or above had also more needs for achievement than the teachers in high noise school who graduated with the master degree or above (p< .05). (5) Teachers who had income for 1001 2000, 2001 3001 baht and above 4000 baht had more emotional problems than teachers who had incomes for 3001 4000 baht ( p < .01). (6) The coefficients of multiple correlation between six variables and all aspects of teachers mental health were not significant. (p > .05)