Stress and its associated factors during Covid-19 pandemic among teachers in Gombak, Selangor.

KHAIRUL HADY, NORSHEILA IZLYN (2021) Stress and its associated factors during Covid-19 pandemic among teachers in Gombak, Selangor. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Covid-19 pandemic become the most serious issue in Malaysia due to the increase of confirmed cases and total death. Movement Control Order (MCO) has been announced in several states-including Selangor. From this order, education has been affected due to the closure of educational institutions. Thus, teaching-learning has been conducted via online medium. Several studies highlight several factors that may lead to stress among teachers such as workload, self-efficacy in conducting online teaching, and motivation in conducting online teaching. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to determine the prevalence of stress and its associated factors among teachers during the Covid-19 pandemic in Gombak, Selangor. METHODOLOGY: This cross-sectional study has been carried out among secondary school teachers in Gombak, Selangor. The participation of teachers in this survey is based on the permission obtained from the school administration. Online Google Form Questionnaire has been distributed to respondents to obtain the data, which consists of 5 sections namely: 1:-Socio-demographic; 2:-Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) [α=0.63]; 3:-Workload [α=0.64]; 4:-Teacher‟s efficacy in online learning [α=0.928] and 5:- Motivation in conducting online teaching [α=0.680]. All data were statistically analyzed using SPSS version 26. RESULT & CONCLUSION: A total of 368 secondary school teachers were recruited from 15 secondary schools in Gombak, Selangor. The results showed 66.3% of them experienced moderate and 2.4% experienced high levels of stress. The stress was associated with the involvement in general administrative activities workload (χ2=9.330. p=0.009), self-efficacy (χ2=8.358, p=0.015) and intrinsic motivation (χ2=6.992, p= 0.030). The most significant factor associated with stress was low self-efficacy (OR=1.781, 95% CI=1.103, 2.875). This study concluded that the stress level among secondary school teachers is alarming. Those with low self-efficacy had 1.8 times the risk to get stress. In conclusion, school‟s management need to provide training in computer program to increase teacher‟s ability in conducting online teaching and adopt facilitative style of leadership that assists teachers to attain their personal and professional goals . Besides, Ministry of Education should institute regular programs such as in-service training and counseling service that continuously improve teachers professionally and their self-efficacy. KEYWORD: Stress, Teacher, Covid-19 pandemic, online teaching and learning, stress factor.

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Depositing User:	Mr Hafizzuddin Hamidon
Date Deposited:	24 Aug 2023 04:45
Last Modified:	24 Aug 2023 04:45
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/944

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