Stress, Strain, and Coping Resources among Faculty at a Research University during Financial Decline. AIR 1996 Annual Forum Paper.

Autor/in	Marcy, Tom
Titel	Stress, Strain, and Coping Resources among Faculty at a Research University during Financial Decline. AIR 1996 Annual Forum Paper.
Quelle	(1996), (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Age Differences; Anxiety; College Faculty; Coping; Financial Problems; Higher Education; Institutional Research; Job Satisfaction; Nontenured Faculty; Research Universities; Retrenchment; Sex Differences; Stress Variables; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Characteristics; Work Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Angst; Fakultät; Bewältigung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Institutionelle Forschung; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Forschungseinrichtung; Sex difference; Geschlechtsunterschied; Lehrerverhalten; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung
Abstract	A study at the University of Missouri-Columbia investigated the stress factors and coping mechanisms among 196 faculty members in 16 departments. The study was undertaken during a period of low faculty salaries in comparison with similar institutions, characterized as moderate to severe financial decline. During the middle of the fall semester of 1991, participants completed an Occupational Stress Inventory (OSI) and general affect rating sheet. It was found that individual faculty feelings about life in general (general affect) strongly affected perceptions of occupational stress, and all coping mechanisms were enhanced strongly by increased general affect. Results indicated the faculty differed by discipline type (hard vs. soft, pure vs. applied, life vs. non-life) on half of the 14 OSI subscales. Faculty age and tenure status predicted three related subscales, and gender predicted only one subscale. General affect predicted 11 subscales. Faculty moderated occupational stress differently, by discipline type, using a variety of coping resources. (MSE)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC