A study on teacher’s participation in recreational sports and work stress in elementary schools in New Taipei City.

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 教育政策與領導研究所碩士在職專班 === 106 === This study mainly aims, via adopting the methods of questionnaire survey and literature review, to explore the relationship between teacher’s participation in recreational sports and work stress in elementary schools in New Taipei City. The main purposes...

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Main Authors: Yu-Ju Lin, 林育如
Other Authors: Ying Chan
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2018
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/mfm4gy
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Summary:碩士 === 淡江大學 === 教育政策與領導研究所碩士在職專班 === 106 === This study mainly aims, via adopting the methods of questionnaire survey and literature review, to explore the relationship between teacher’s participation in recreational sports and work stress in elementary schools in New Taipei City. The main purposes of this study include: 1.To understand the situation of teacher’s participation in recreational sports in elementary schools in New Taipei City. 2.To explore the work stress of the teachers in elementary schools in New Taipei City. 3.To explore the relationship between teacher’s participation in recreational sports and work stress. 4.To analyze the differences in the participation in recreational sports and work stress of teachers with different backgrounds. 5. To propose suggestions, based on the research findings, useful for the reform of related educational policies in the future. The questionnaire survey was conducted through the stratified random sampling method. In total, 470 teachers in elementary schools of New Taipei City were chosen as the samples of the survey, 418 valid questionnaires (about 88.9% response rate) were collected and analyzed. The conclusions of this study can be summarized as follows: 1. Teachers'' participation in recreational sports was considerably low, and among the various sports, teachers’ participation in “outdoor sports” was the highest. 2. The degree of work stress felt by teachers was about medium low, while the greatest pressure of their work was derived from their workload. 3. Viewed from the dimension as a whole, teacher’s participation in recreational sports differs significantly, in terms of their gender, their age, marital status, number of children, family types, accumulated years of teaching, current administrative position, regional location of their schools, and school size. 4. Viewed from the dimension as a whole, the teacher’s work stress differs significantly, in terms of their age, marital status, number of children, family types, accumulated years of teaching, current administrative position, and regional location of their schools. 5. The correlation between teacher’s participation in recreational sports and the work stress of the above-noted teachers was considerably low.