A Compilation Of The Scale For Occupational Stressors On College Teachers

Along with the transformation of society and the reform of higher education, the college teachers are facing more stresses. They do research, serve the society while they teach the students, what's more, their work is strictly evaluated. Therefore, it can be imagined that College teachers are suffering extremely stress. Constantly enduring the high stress will bring harm to their physical and mental health as well as to the development of the higher education in China.As a result, it is very necessary to study the college teachers'occupational stresses so as to prevent the negative effects produced by them. However, the existing researches focusing on the college teachers'occupational stress are fewer and lack of profundity. In addition, no comprehensive system tool has been developed to test it. Thus, it is urgent to compile a scientific and canonical tool to measure college teachers'job stress. This research intends to compile a standardized and scientific survey system to investigate the college teachers'occupational stress, and then study the stressors by multivariate analysis.Based on the references datum both at home and abroad, interviewing with and questionnaire investigation on college teachers as well, Scale for Occupational Stressors on College Teachers is developed, which composes of 64 items after repeated measurement and revise. The statistical test shows:1.DiscriminationThe subtests between high groups and low groups are different significantly, which demonstrates sound discrimination.(1) Structure validity: KMO and Bartlett test indicate datum are better linearism and can be made factor analysis. Nine factors that have gotten from this research can explain 62.842% of total variance, so it can reflect the sources of college teachers'occupational stress.(2)Content validity: the correlation between total scale and subtests is measured,and the result shows that the total scale and subtests correlate highly. Therefore,the scale has higher content validity .(3)Criterion-related validity: CMBI is used as criterion to check the scale's validity in this research and the result shows that the criterion is middling correlated with the scale.3. Scale reliabilityThe internal reliability of the scale and subtests accords with the requirement of psychometrics(Cronbach a=0.9654,subtests'Cronbach a=0.6535～0.9177).In addition, 400 college teachers are investigated and measured by a self-made Scale for Occupational Stress on college teachers, whose reliability and validity can both meet the requirement of the scale-making. The results are as follows:1.In overall values, diverse titles of technical post are different obviously.2. Stresses emerging from professional development, working load, lack of interest, job adaptation, professional development and scientific research, are different significantly among teachers with diverse titles of technical post.3. The stress of college teachers who have diverse length of service has significant differences in the overall value of pressure,working load and students.4. The stress of teachers in arts, science and technology displays significant difference in the adaptation working conditions.According to the results which have been discussed in this paper, some suggestions are put forward to reduce the pressure.(1)In order to support college teachers'development and lessen their occupational stress, besides working out and perfecting policies and rules correlated with college education system, the government should adopt effective measures as well;(2) Colleges should take systemic survey and assessment of stress risk on college teachers, create a favorable work and psychological environment, and take action to lessen the occupational stresses;(3) College teachers themselves also should understand their occupational stress soundly, learn and use proper tactics to enhance their psychological defending abilities.