Abstract
Teacher stress has been a major concern among researchers as it has negative impact on teaching profesion. This study aimed to test the mediating effect of irrational beliefs on the relationship between activating event as the independent variable and stress as the dependent variable. Data were collected from a sample of 201 teachers from seven Malaysian Fully Residential School (FRS) in the Johor state by using stratified random sampling. The Teacher Irrational Beliefs (TIB), Teacher Activating Event (TAE), and Teacher Stress (TRS) questionnaires were employed to measure irrational beliefs, activating events, and stress of teachers. The Pearson coefficient correlation was used to determine the relationships among variables and multiple regression analysis was used to verify the presence of mediation effects. In general, the correlation results showed that there were positive relationships among variables. The findings of regression analysis indicated that irrational beliefs mediate the relationship between activating event and stress among FRS teachers. This findings highlighted the teachers’ irrational beliefs as the major determinants of emotional problems rather than activating event itself which comply with the ABC Model based on Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) approach.
Highlights
Teaching is the most stressful occupation compared to other occupations, such as nursing, managing, professional and community service occupations (Health and Safety Executive, 2000)
The findings of this study revealed that activating event (A) has significantly related to stress (C) among Fully Residential School (FRS) teachers This finding was consistently reported in previous studies (Kyriacou, 2001; Azlihanis et al, 2009; Shernoff et al, 2011) which indicated some stressors were significantly associated with stress among teachers
The aim of the present study is to extend the existing literature using ABC Model based on Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) approach to test whether the irrational beliefs (B) act as mediator in the relationship between activating event (A) and stress (C) among FRS teachers
Summary
Teaching is the most stressful occupation compared to other occupations, such as nursing, managing, professional and community service occupations (Health and Safety Executive, 2000). The Health and Safety Executive (2000) revealed that two out of five teachers in the United Kingdom suffered from stress, compared to one in five workers from other occupations. Jayakaran and Koroush (2010) had found teachers‟ burnout level which closely related to stress were different with regard to different age group and workload categories among primary and secondary school teachers in Malaysia. Up to 34 percent of stress prevalence, 17.4 percent of mild-stress suffered by secondary school teachers, and indicated non-job-related factors such as age, duration of work and psychological job demands were significantly associated with stress level of teachers (Azlihanis et al, 2009)
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