교직전문성, 직무만족도, 학교풍토와 특수교사 직무스트레스의 관계

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship with special education teachers' job stress with teaching professionalism, job satisfaction, and school climates. There are limited studies that directly analyzed the special education teachers' stress and their professionalism, job satisfaction, and school climates. This study employed survey research design to answer a few research questions. A total of 100 special education teachers participated this study from diverse areas. Results of the study indicated that special education teachers who participated a survey were experiencing the highest job stress in the area of ​​time management. The female teachers were suffering more job stress from school parents than those of the male teachers. There was a significant difference between the degree of disability of students and a stress variable of relationship with the students, but the degree of disability of students was not influenced on other job stress variables. One interesting result showed that the less the number of class per week the more stress from the mutual relationship between teachers. The relationship between teaching professionalism and special education teachers' job stress showed that the higher managerial and administrative expertise in the class the less stress from school administrators, mutual relationship between teachers, and time management. A sense of dedication in teaching professionalism had statistically negative correlation with every stress variable except inner conflicts. The relationship between job satisfaction and special education teachers' job stress showed that all of the seven independent variables in job satisfaction had statistically negative correlation with stress from the relationships with school administrators. Teachers expressed the highest satisfaction in relationships with social communities in job satisfaction area. The relationship between school climate and their job stress showed that warm school climate had statistically negative correlation with all the variables in job stress. However, closed climate had statistically positive correlation with each and every job stress variables.