Role conflict and social support predicting work stress of teachers in extra-large school in the secondary educational service area office 1 in Bangkok metropolitan.
Abstract:
The purposes of this research are: (1) to study the levels of role conflict, social
support and work stress of teachers (2) to study the relationship between of role conflict,
social support and work stress of teachers. (3) to predict work stress of teachers with
role conflict and social support. The samples used were 352 of teachers in extra-large
school in the secondary educational area service office 1. Research instrument was
questionnaire. The statistics for analysis was frequency, percentage, mean, standard
deviation, Pearsons correlation coefficient and stepwise multiple regression.
The findings revealed that (1) the overall work stress was at low level. The overall
role conflict was at moderate level. The overall social support and each facet of social
support were at highest level. (2) There was a relationship between role conflict and
work stress of teachers with a statistical significance at .01 level. There was not
a relationship between social support and work stress of teachers. ( 3) role conflict
predicted with 6.3 percent of the variance in work stress of teachers