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Todd McClimans – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teachers are leaving the teaching profession before reaching the age of retirement at increasingly high numbers, many citing increased stress as a factor in their decision to quit, contributing to a national teacher shortage. This qualitative study investigated the stressors experienced by eight K-12 teachers in a rural Pennsylvania school…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Stress Management, Family Work Relationship, School Districts
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Rajendran, Natalia; Watt, Helen M. G.; Richardson, Paul W. – Australian Educational Researcher, 2020
Correlates of turnover intent among primary (N = 580) and secondary (N = 675), male (N = 254) and female (N = 999) teachers, were examined through the lens of the job demands-resources (JD-R) model. Multigroup structural equation modelling indicated that job demands (workload, student misbehaviour), and the personal demand of work-family conflict,…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Intention, Faculty Mobility, Elementary School Teachers
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Alemu, Yirgalem; Teshome, Aschalew; Kebede, Million; Regassa, Tessema – African Educational Research Journal, 2014
The aim of this study was to explore the experiences and sources of stress among practicing student-teachers in the Eastern region of Ethiopia. A total of 112 participants were selected from the total population of 197 using stratified random sampling technique. Data were collected using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), sources of stress measure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Stress Variables, Teaching Conditions, Graduate Study
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Johnson, Sarah; Li, Jianghong; Kendall, Garth; Strazdins, Lyndall; Jacoby, Peter – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2013
This study examined the association between typical parental work hours (including nonemployed parents) and children's behavior in two-parent heterosexual families. Child behavior was measured by the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) at ages 5, 8, and 10 in the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study ("N" = 4,201 child-year…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Family Work Relationship, Employed Parents, Foreign Countries
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Vassos, Maria V.; Nankervis, Karen L. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Previous research has highlighted that factors such as large workload, role ambiguity, lack of support from colleagues, and challenging behaviour are associated with higher levels of burnout within the disability support worker (DSW) population. The aim of this research was to investigate which factors contribute the most to the prediction of the…
Descriptors: Burnout, Predictor Variables, Stress Variables, Disabilities
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Kolak, Amy M.; Vernon-Feagans, Lynne – Infant and Child Development, 2008
The goal of this multi-method study was to examine how child gender and coparenting processes influence associations between family stress and toddlers' social adjustment. The participants, 104 dual-earner couples and their 2-year-old children, were videotaped in their home during a freeplay activity. Mothers and fathers completed questionnaires…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Questionnaires, Social Adjustment, Emotional Adjustment
Caspar, Emma, Ed. – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2009
The purpose of "Focus" is to provide coverage of poverty-related research, events, and issues, and to acquaint a large audience with the work of the Institute for Research on Poverty by means of short essays on selected pieces of research. This issue contains the following articles: (1) Changing poverty and changing antipoverty policies…
Descriptors: Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Structure, Skilled Workers