Department of Medical Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Sciences and Technology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria.
Department of Medical Rehabilitation, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
BMC Psychol. 2023 Mar 16;11(1):73. doi: 10.1186/s40359-023-01114-5.
Work-related stress (WRS) is a highly prevalent and pervasive problem that can result in loss of productivity and deterioration of a lecturer's health. Lecturing work requires coping with some of the stressful situations found in any workplace to have a favourable quality of work life. The study determined the influence of sex, years of teaching experience, and academic rank on work-related stress, coping mechanisms, and quality of work life among lecturers at Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU).
This was a cross-sectional survey involving 283 lecturers consecutively recruited from NAU after proportionate randomization of the lecturers in 101 departments. The Health and Safety Executive Work Related stress (HSE-WRS), Work-Related Quality of life (WRQL), and Brief-cope Questionnaires (BCQ) were applied to assess the participant's work-related stress, quality of work life, and coping mechanism (CM) respectively. Data were analyzed using Kruskal Wallis and Mann-Whitney U tests at a 0.05 level of significance.
Sex, years of teaching experience, and academic rank had statistically significant influence on 14 subsets of coping mechanism with p-values </=0.01. Years of teaching experience had a statistically significant influence on work-related stress (p = 0.00). Sex, years of teaching experience, and academic rank did not influence work-related quality of life in a statistically significant way.
There was a statistically significant influence of sex, years of teaching experience, and academic rank on coping strategies of lecturers. Also, a statistically significant influence of years of teaching experience on work related stress of lecturers was ascertained and revealed that male lecturers coped better with the rigorous demands of the job compared to female lecturers.
工作相关压力（WRS）是一个普遍存在且严重的问题，可能导致生产力下降和讲师健康恶化。授课工作需要应对任何工作场所都会遇到的一些压力情况，以拥有良好的工作生活质量。本研究旨在确定性别的差异、教学经验的年限和学术职称对奈梅亨阿齐基韦大学（NAU）讲师的工作相关压力、应对机制和工作生活质量的影响。
这是一项横断面调查，涉及通过对 101 个系的讲师进行比例随机化后，连续从 NAU 招募的 283 名讲师。使用健康与安全执行局工作相关压力（HSE-WRS）、工作相关生活质量（WRQL）和简短应对问卷（BCQ）分别评估参与者的工作相关压力、工作生活质量和应对机制（CM）。使用 Kruskal-Wallis 和 Mann-Whitney U 检验在 0.05 水平上进行数据分析。
性别、教学经验年限和学术职称对 14 个子集的应对机制有统计学意义（p 值≤0.01）。教学经验年限对工作相关压力有统计学意义（p=0.00）。性别、教学经验年限和学术职称对工作相关生活质量没有统计学意义的影响。
性别、教学经验年限和学术职称对讲师的应对策略有统计学意义的影响。此外，还确定了教学经验年限对讲师工作相关压力的统计学意义的影响，并揭示了男性讲师比女性讲师更好地应对工作的严格要求。
