Die doeltreffendheid van 'n streshanteringsprogram vir onderwysers van die Departement Onderwys en Opleiding

[摘要] English: This study investigates the prevalence of stress among a group ofblack teachers at four secondary schools in the Bloemfontein cityarea and includes a stress-management programme that waspresented to these. teachers. There exists a great shortage ofresearch about teacher stress within the context of the blackSouth African community.In the literature the occurrence. of stres is approached fromdifferent viewpoints and stress research. stretches over a broadand comprehensive area. The researcher has chosen theinteractional model of stress from the various models available.This model focuses on factors that cause stress, stress reactionsand coping mechani~ms.A literature study on stress among teachers in general ispresented, after which attention is devoted to stress asexperienced by black_teachers in the RSA.In the . course of the study the researcher at first followed anexperimental research approach, but because of practical problemsthat was encountered, this had to be abandoned. ·She nextdecided to adopt the principals of action research, an approachwhich emphasises the involvement of the researcher, as well as aneffort to change the behaviour of the participants in the project bymeans of the research. Data were collected by means of the Stress Audit . Questionnaireand a semi-structured interview, based on the Egan Helping Model(1990). No statistical revision of the questionnaire data could bedone due to a shortage of respondents. Nevertheless it waspossible to arrive at a few conclusions which may afford a certainamount of insight into the problem. The interviews have providedparticularly valuable information.There had been three interviews with the teachers. A stressmanagement programme was presented during the secondinterview. During the third interview the programme wasevaluated and further needs were determined.The results of the questionaire show that almost all the teacherssee themselves as capable of handling stress, but that about athird of the group have exceptionally high levels of stres·s. Theresearcher does not regard this results as reliable, however.Results of the interviews show that a lot of stressors is connectedwith the work-situation of the teachers. These stress-factorscould be properly identified by the teachers, but they feelincapable of doing anything about the situation. Support and helpfrom collegues, the community and especially teaching authoritiesseem to be a great need. The researcher recommends that action research be used todevelop a stress management programme that takes the uniqueneeds of the black teacher into account.

[发布机构] University of the Free State