An Inquiry Into The Interrelationship Between The Teachers' Job Satisfaction And Occupational Stress Of The Teachers From The Public Institutions Of Higher Education

This paper explores the overall status quo and the interrelationship of job satisfaction and occupational stress of the teachers from the public institutions of higher education(exemplified by a South-China university) so as to utilize this investigation for further comprehension of the issue regarding the teachers' job satisfaction and occupational stress,provide helpful hints for the management of college teachers and the formulation of policies as well as useful references for future studies concerned,and in turn effectively stimulate and encourage the teachers for their greater word enthusiasm.In the first place,the paper presents a rather comprehensive literature review on the study in terms of the teachers' job satisfaction and occupational stress,and then it makes good use of the mature quantitative table in this regard to launch a random sampling questionnaire survey with the full-time teachers of University A.And among the total 181 collected questionnaire copies,there are 169 valid ones.The survey results are analyzed through statistical methods like descriptive Statistics,t-test,one Way-ANOVA,and regression.All these analyses contribute to the reaching of the study conclusions as follows:1.The status quo of the teachers' job satisfaction and occupational stress from the public institutions of higher education.As a whole,their overall job satisfaction,registers medium-and-above level,and their occupational stress a medium-to-high level.In the survey of job satisfaction,the lowest is the satisfaction with the leaders' management,and the highest is the satisfaction with the job itself and the work environment,in the survey of occupational stress, comparatively high is the stress from professional development and work load, and the lowest is the pressure from interpersonal communication.2.The regression analysis finds that the occupational stress obviously exercises negative influence over the job satisfaction.3.The one way-ANOVA illustrates that the job satisfaction and occupational stress vary significantly in the context of various variables.