This study, targeting for middle school teachers, was performed to examine the effect of the qualification of a professional counseling teacher on the degree of accepting stress, stress coping strategies and psychological well-being of teachers.
This...
This study, targeting for middle school teachers, was performed to examine the effect of the qualification of a professional counseling teacher on the degree of accepting stress, stress coping strategies and psychological well-being of teachers.
This is to suggest the direction of educational process for training professional counseling teachers by providing basic data on whether broader well-ground education can receive help from teachers completing a course of professional counseling teacher, who not only plays a role as a counselor able to help the development of students taking counsel, but also assists teachers themselves in coping positively with the stress that they experience and in enhancing their psychological well-being.
With such purpose, research problems that will be discussed in this study are as follow.
Research problem 1. Is there a difference in the degree of stress acceptance according to the qualification of a middle school professional counseling teacher?
Research problem 2. Is there a difference in stress coping strategies according to the qualification of a middle school professional counseling teacher?
Research problem 3. Is there a difference in psychological well-being according to the qualification of a middle professional counseling teacher?
The targets of this study are 78 teachers (39 teachers with the qualification of a professional counseling teacher and 39 teachers without the qualification) in 14 public middle schools located in Song-pa Gu, Seoul. As a means of measurement, a questionnaire for measurement of teacher's stress, a questionnaire for measurement of stress coping strategies and a questionnaire for measurement of psychological well-being were utilized.
In this study, SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science) Win 12.0 was applied for the statistical process of collected data from the questionnaires
In order to examine the correlation of respective sub-factors regarding the degree of stress acceptance, stress coping strategies and psychological well-being, correlation analysis was conducted. To learn about the existence of a difference according to the qualification of a professional counseling teacher in 1) the degree of stress acceptance, 2) stress coping strategies, and 3) psychological well-being, T-test by sub-factors was performed.
The results of this study are as follows.
Firstly, in order to examine the degree of stress according to the qualification of a middle professional counseling teacher, four sub-factors: a counseling scene, duties in school, family life, and a teacher as an individual were classified and analyzed. As the results of analysis, it showed that teachers with the qualification have less stress with respect to overall stress and sub-factors such as a counseling scene, duties in school, and a teacher as an individual.
Secondly, in order to find out a difference of stress coping strategies according to the qualification of a middle professional counseling teacher, a defiant coping strategy, an evasive coping strategy, and an emotional relaxation strategy were divided and analyzed. As the results of analysis, when facing with the condition of stress, compared to teachers without the qualification, teachers with the qualification selected a defiant coping strategy more, which pursues a positive solution of a problem, while they employ an evasive coping strategy less, which is passive and defensive.
Thirdly, in order to investigate a difference of psychological well-being according to the qualification of a middle school professional counseling teacher, self-regulations, control over the environment, individual growth, the goal of life, positive interpersonal relations, and the sub-regions of self-acceptance were divided and analyzed. As the result of analysis, teachers with the qualification showed higher psychological well-being in the goal of life and overall psychological well-being than teachers without the qualification.
On the other hand, concerning the degree of stress according to sub-factors, both teachers with/without the qualification receive the highest stress from duties in school and next from a counseling scene.
It was identified that teachers have higher stress from the school duties and counseling scene rather than problems from family life or an individual as a teacher. It reflects that even though teachers have the qualification of a professional counseling teacher, if they have too heavy school duties, they are not able to perform counsel actively. Accordingly, people in charge of the administrative agency should reduce heavy school duties to make a professional counseling teachers fulfill their role fully and pay attention to prepare the condition of counsel.