Abstract

The primary purpose of this study is to identify married female teachers' job stress factors and assess the effects of married female teachers' job stress and reward on their psychological well-being. Participants were 326 female teachers of Kyeonggi Province. Factor analysis showed 7 job stress factors. They are authoritative administration, low income, overload, conflict, loss of authority, class management and guidance of students. These factors were demonstrated to show some part of married female teachers job stress (about 50.5% of job stress). Married female teachers' job stress is significantly related with psychological well-being and physical symptoms. Married female teachers' job reward showed interaction of job stress with depression, anxiety, and physical symptoms. The findings by this study demonstrate married female teachers' psychological well-being reflects a combination of job stress and job reward. In the future we should articulate female teachers' Job stress questionnaire on the result of this study. And future research should include behavioral index as a dependent variable. (Korean J Str Res 2008;16:241∼249)

• Keywords: Married female teacher, Job stress, Job reward, Psychological well-being