This study investigated the relationships among pupil control orientation, five factors of teacher stress, sex, and age of 130 full-time teachers. Results indicated an authoritarian orientation was significantly related to higher scores on four of the five stress factors and age was significantly related to two stress factors. (Author/MT)

A study examined the personality characteristics and self-concepts of 110 teachers-in-training to see how these variables related to the subjects' humanistic versus authoritarian orientations toward pupil control. It was found that the humanistically oriented educators tended to be emotionally stable, realistic, expedient, happy-go-lucky,…

Research has indicated that teachers with a humanistic orientation have fewer problems with classroom discipline and are less subject to stress than are those with an authoritarian approach. An investigation of teacher stress focused upon teachers' personality, ideology, gender, age, locus of control, and pupil control orientation. Participants in…