Developed and standardized a Teaching StressQuestionnaire

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Saqqez Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saqqez, Iran.

2 Master of Science in Elementary Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Saqqez Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saqqez, Iran.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to Developed and standardized a Teaching Stress Questionnaire for measuring the teaching stress. In this regard, a questionnaire to assess the stress of teaching elementary teachers was prepared and to determine the content validity, experts, teachers and educational psychology experts were consulted and the items that were agreed and approved were more than 0.96 as appropriate items. were chosen. The Cronbach's alpha of the instrument used was 0.96, which indicates the high degree of reliability of the instrument. The research is descriptive and experimental. This research is considered as mixed research (quantitative and qualitative) in terms of method. The data of this research were collected in both quantitative and qualitative ways and its implementation in a quantitative stage was done in the form of a survey that was made using a researcher-made questionnaire. The methods of analysis used in this study in terms of quality were the content validity; In the inferential approach, K-S test and confirmatory factor analysis, if confirmatory factor analysis did not fit, exploratory factor analysis was used. SPSS and SMAR PLS software were used to analyze the statistical data. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed to examine the fit of the proposed model of elementary school teaching stress. In factor analysis, questions that had a low factor load were removed in order to fit the model and also to determine the appropriate model questions.

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