Date of Award

1994

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Art

Department

Education

First Advisor

Marilyn Patterson

Second Advisor

Jesse B. Harris Jr.

Third Advisor

Pamela Nickels

Abstract

This work explored the relationship between stress as assessed by the TCI for tenured and non- tenured public school teachers. Fifty six rural public school teachers, grades K-12, voluntarily participated in the study . Thirty- six were tenured teachers and 20 were non- tenured . The Teacher Concern Inventory (TCI) was administered once to the participants . The average scale score for tenured and non-tenured teachers' scores were ranked according to t he test's ten subscales. Analysis using Kendall's Tau indicated that there was a significant relationship in rankings regarding job-related stress .

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