Occupational Stress and Teaching Approaches among Chinese Academics

Autor/in	Zhang, Li-fang
Titel	Occupational Stress and Teaching Approaches among Chinese Academics
Quelle	In: Educational Psychology, 29 (2009) 2, S.203-219 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0144-3410
Schlagwörter	Learning Strategies; Coping; Foreign Countries; Teaching Methods; Stress Variables; Occupational Tests; Measures (Individuals); College Faculty; Cognitive Style; Investigations; Predictor Variables; Self Disclosure (Individuals); Item Analysis; Educational Psychology; China (Guangzhou) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Bewältigung; Ausland; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Berufseignungsprüfung; Messdaten; Fakultät; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Untersuchung; Prädiktor; Itemanalyse; Erziehungspsychologie; Pädagogische Psychologie
Abstract	The primary objective of this study was to examine the predictive power of occupational stress for teaching approaches. Participants were 246 faculty members from a large university in Guangzhou in the People's Republic of China, who completed the Approaches to Teaching Inventory, four scales from the Occupational Stress Inventory-Revised (assessing role overload, role insufficiency, psychological strain, and rational/cognitive coping), and the Self-rated Ability Scale. Results suggested that after the participants' self-rated abilities were controlled for, the combination of role overload and the use of rational/cognitive coping was conducive to the conceptual-change teaching approach (both intention and strategy), and that role insufficiency negatively predicted the conceptual-change teaching strategy. Furthermore, together, rational/cognitive coping and psychological strain contributed to an information-transmission teaching strategy. The implications of these findings for university academics and for university senior managers are discussed. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10