Work Stress among School Teachers: A Systematic Literature Review
Teachers at higher secondary schools work with teenagers as their students. Students' stress levels rise during adolescence, which can be a time of anxiety, tension, emotional storms, and conflict. Teachers experience excessive stress as a result, which impacts every part of their lives 1 . Th...
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Teachers at higher secondary schools
work with teenagers as their students. Students' stress levels rise during adolescence, which
can be a time of anxiety, tension, emotional storms, and conflict. Teachers experience excessive stress as a result, which impacts
every part of their lives 1 . The goal of this review is to learn more about the level of stress that educators encounter, how it affects
their performance at work, and th e coping strategies that they use to manage it. The researcher thoroughly studied the previous
research literature from journals, research articles, theses, and dissertations to identify 21 relevant studies , conducted in India and
abroad. Purposive sampli ng was used and a modified checklist of CASP (Critical Appraisal Skills Programs) was used to analyze
the extracted data. It was discovered through a review of earlier studies that secondary school teachers experience moderate to
severe levels of work rela ted stress. Big class sizes, issues with controlling student behavior, a lack of professional development
opportunities, a lack of staff interaction and time for curriculum discussions, inadequate pay, a lack of intrinsic satisfact ion, and a
s hortage of us eful teaching aids all emerged as sources of stress , which also affected their performance . To deal with their stress,
t eachers used the coping strategies of sleeping, w atching TV, talking wit h friends, listening to music, shopping, and t raveling to
places of natural beauty. This systematic review highlights the need to reduce teacher stress because stressed teachers are less
able to instruct students effectively and to create an environment that makes learning c hallenging and engaging
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| spelling | doaj-art-eee04bc4b49c4ed79607b8506b956cc82025-08-20T02:56:20ZengSocial Medicine Publication GroupSocial Medicine1557-71122025-05-0118210.71164/socialmedicine.v18i2.2025.1869Work Stress among School Teachers: A Systematic Literature ReviewKavitha B.0Jacintha Veigas1Nandini Mannadath2Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences, Nitte (Deemed to be University), Mangalore,Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences, Nitte (Deemed to be University), Derlakatte,MangaloreCollege of Health & Sports Sciences University of Bahrain- Salmaniya Campus, Manama, Teachers at higher secondary schools work with teenagers as their students. Students' stress levels rise during adolescence, which can be a time of anxiety, tension, emotional storms, and conflict. Teachers experience excessive stress as a result, which impacts every part of their lives 1 . The goal of this review is to learn more about the level of stress that educators encounter, how it affects their performance at work, and th e coping strategies that they use to manage it. The researcher thoroughly studied the previous research literature from journals, research articles, theses, and dissertations to identify 21 relevant studies , conducted in India and abroad. Purposive sampli ng was used and a modified checklist of CASP (Critical Appraisal Skills Programs) was used to analyze the extracted data. It was discovered through a review of earlier studies that secondary school teachers experience moderate to severe levels of work rela ted stress. Big class sizes, issues with controlling student behavior, a lack of professional development opportunities, a lack of staff interaction and time for curriculum discussions, inadequate pay, a lack of intrinsic satisfact ion, and a s hortage of us eful teaching aids all emerged as sources of stress , which also affected their performance . To deal with their stress, t eachers used the coping strategies of sleeping, w atching TV, talking wit h friends, listening to music, shopping, and t raveling to places of natural beauty. This systematic review highlights the need to reduce teacher stress because stressed teachers are less able to instruct students effectively and to create an environment that makes learning c hallenging and engaging https://www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine/article/view/1869Source of StressDepressionAnxietySchool teachers |
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