The Relationship between Workplace Humor and Work Stress of Elementary School Teachers in Tainan

• Main Authors: Hsia-Yu Su, 蘇夏幼
• Other Authors: Ching-Ling Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71401832741709083348

碩士 === 台南應用科技大學 === 生活應用科學研究所 === 100 === The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between workplace humor and work stress of 536 elementary school teachers in Tainan city. The sample data are collected by two instruments, Elementary School Teacher Workplace Humor Checklist and Elementary School Teacher Work Stress Checklist, and analyzed by utilizing a variety of statistical methods such as descriptive analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA, product-moment correlation and canonical correlation. The findings were as follows. 1.The perception of workplace humor is above the middle-level, where the “humorous attitudes” aspect has the highest score. 2.The perceptions of work stress were between middle to low degree, when the highest score was in “work loadings”. 3.It is showed that perceptions of workplace humor have significant differences among elementary school teachers in genders, educational background, job position and teaching grade. 4.It is showed that perceptions of work stress have significant differences among elementary school teachers in job position, teaching grade, school scale and school district. 5.There is a significant negative correlation between workplace humor and work stress of elementary school teachers. It is indicated that the elementary teachers have more workplace humor, and they will perceive less work stress. Finally, implications for elementary school teachers, elementary schools and future researcher were discussed. Keywords: work stress, workplace humor, elementary school teachers