中華心理衛生協會

Purpose: The aim of this research is to explore the relationship between the stress-coping styles and physical/psychological health of reserved primary school teachers during teacher-recruiting process.Methods: There are two questionnaires, the Chinese Health Questionnaire (CHQ-30) and the Stress Coping Styles Questionnaire (SCSQ) were passed toward reserved primary school teachers during recruiting process in Taipei, central Taiwan and Hualien in June 2005. There are 551 reserved primary school teachers (87 male and 464 female; age range: 22-43) participated in this study.Results: The CHQ-30 scores indicate that more than 53.7% reserved primary school teachers' physical/psychological health is unhealthy. The marriage status, educational level, teaching experience and past teacher-recruiting experience are the significant factors of their physical/psychological health. The SCSQ scores show that gender, family income type and educational background have influence on those reserved primary school teachers' stress-coping styles. Correlation analyses indicate that different stress-coping styles have different degrees of influence on their physical and psychological health. Stepwise Multiple Regression Analyses indicate that the physical/psychological health of reserved primary school teachers is negatively related with emotion-indirect coping style and problem-direct coping style.Conclusion: Due to the uncontrollable stress of teacher-recruiting process, it is not probable to cope with it in problem-direct style. The research results suggest that the impact on physical and psychological health can be reduced if the emotion-direct and/or problem-indirect coping styles were used in the teacher-recruiting process.