Relationship between the subject and specialized competition to perceived burden of junior high school teachers who teach school athletic club activities

Abstract

Background: Regarding the burden of teachers in school athletic club activities, it is often argued that it is a burden because time of school athletic club activities related to working hours is long. However, factors related to the perceived burden of school athletic club activities have not been considered. The purpose of this study was the following three. 1) To clarify the rate of complaints about the perceived burden of teaching school athletic club activities among junior high school teachers in Yamanashi Prefecture. 2) To examine the relationship between teaching specialized competition and perceived burden. 3) To examine the relationship between the subject and the teaching specialized competition with the perceived burden.

Method: We got data from 1,068 teachers who teaching school athletic club activities at junior high school in Yamanashi prefecture. Using a logistic regression analysis, we investigated a complex relationship between subject, involvement in specialized competition, and a perceived burden for teaching of school athletic club activities.

Result: The accused rate of perceived burden to the teaching of school athletic club activities was 72.3%,21.3% of which had a sense of burden of high intensity. Odds ratio which has perceived burden so much that it is not involved in own specialized competition was high. Participation in the subject and specialized competitions was combined with complaints of perceived burden.