| Summary: | Workload is the amount of work performed by someone usually within a specific time.
In occupational safety and health settings, dealing with workload can be stressful and
serve as a stressor for employees. Stress is felt as a pressure or burden often caused due
to increase in workload, role conflict and not enough support from co-workers. Teaching
career is a Nobel work but yet demanding career. Because of extended hours and heavy
workloads, teachers are in danger of being overworked and not taking serious care about
their own mental and physical health. The aimed of this research is to determine the
correlation between workload and stress level among secondary school teachers. It is a
cross-sectional study which use stratified sampling method to choose the schools.
Workload is calculated using HSE Management Standards Indicator Tools questionnaire.
Stress level calculated using International Stress Management Association United
Kingdom (ISMAUK) questionnaire. Research result shows that, 55.0% of the teachers are
having workload demand on sometimes and the stress level among school teachers are in
medium level which is 50.0%. Moreover, the Pearson coefficient value shows 0.005,
therefore there is significant correlation between workload and stress level among
secondary school teachers. This reveals that the teaching profession is no more the
profession of a little stress.
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