A Study On Coping Characteristics And Its Related Factor Of Primary And Junior High School Teachers

This study explored features of primary and junior high school teachers' coping ways and influences of teacher' s general self-efficacy, social support, subjective stress and gender upon them, based itself on the guidance of teacher' s mental health and taken their coping ways as a breach. It tries to seek the mental mechanism teachers can succeed in coping stress, and helps the guidance of teacher' s mental health and coping research. The study investigated 700 primary and junior high school teachers from Inner Mongolia, used teacher' s general self-efficacy scale, coping scale and social support scale. The finings are elaborated as the following: The stress level of teachers is moderate generally, however, further research shows that they are suffering more work stress; They often use adaptation coping styles and sometimes these coping styles could be utilized beyond stress situations; Coping with the negative stress, they tend to adopt maladaptive coping ways; They inclines to synthetically apply various ways and lay particular emphasis on each coping strategies under diverse contexts; Teachers from different background in different situations show that there are significant differences in different coping ways; Teacher' s general self-efficacy, social support, subjective stress and gender have different significantly predictive effects on different coping styles, and they might have more significantly predictive effects on certain type coping ways.