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Can High School Teachers Reduce Stress (at Their Workplace) With Physical Activity?

An outrageous technological advancement, informatization of the curricular process, modernization of education and society in general, put some new demands in front of the occupation teacher. Stated trends demand from the teachers the need to perfect and adapt on daily basis, which because of the complexity of the work itself may induce stress. Frequent stress exposure induce consequences which manifest on health status of the teachers in different manner. The main goal of this paper was to establish the correlation between levels and domains of physical activity (work, travel, household, free time) with stress occurrence at work. The subject sample consisted of 945 high school teachers of Zagreb, stratified by school types and their representation at city level. For the assessment of the physical activity level an International Physical Activity Questionnaire IPAQ-LF, (International Consensus Group, Craig et al., 2003) was used. For the assessment of the levels of stress at workplace a Job Affective Well-Being Scale (JAWS) (Van Katwyk, Fox, Spector and Kelloway, 2000) and Physical Symptoms Inventory Questionnaire, PSI, (Spector & Jex, 1998) were used. For data analysis program packages Statistica 12 and IBM SPSS Statistics were used. Correlation analysis confirmed negative connection of general level of physical activity and levels of leisure time physical activity with indicators of stress at work, and a positive connection of physical activity in household with physical symptoms of stress related to work. The scientific contribution of this research manifests in obtained understanding about correlation between levels and domains of physical activity (work place, transfer to work place, household and leisure time) with the stress occurrence at work place of the high school teachers in town of Zagreb. The results may be a good base for planning a strategy of work conditions enhancement in teachers by administering suitable and adequate kinesiologic programs.

Croatian high school teachers, domains of physical activity, correlation

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