2022 Volume 18 Issue 2 Pages 73-86
In this research an internet survey was conducted with 1,000 school teachers in order to clarify factors reducing teachers' occupational stress. A total of 640 teachers who were aware of their own health problems were classified according to the combination of the total stress response score (the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire) and the work disability index (Japanese version of the SPS scale). Then, the hypothesis that different factors associated with different groups of classified stress situations was tested. In multiple group analysis a good-fitting model with employment status, values for teaching profession, work motivation, the work disability index, or the sub-items of characteristics of occupational stress factors and responses as variables was obtained, and common and unique paths for each group were extracted. This analysis showed that the value of teaching profession and work motivation as well as the workload associated with over- work acted as interference factors in the process from stress factors to stress responses. In order to reduce school teachers' occupational stress, it is necessary not only to improve their working conditions such as overwork, but also to provide support that takes into account their professional values and the maintenance of proper work motivation.
