The Health Problem as a Moderator of Stress that Lead to Job Performance among Teachers in Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Pasir Gudang 2 Johor Bahru.
The Health Problem as a Moderator of Stress that Lead to Job Performance among Teachers in Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Pasir Gudang 2 Johor Bahru.
Background
Stress and Fatigue booklet (1998) define stress communication between employee and his/her work environment. The booklet also describes the stress is an employee that cannot be able to deal with demands of an environment. It also copes with the realization of concern of the employee that will associate with negative emotional responds. The author stated in psychologically side that an employee and environment that have a problem may lead the stress to interfere in his/her surrounding of working. Thus, stress also may pilot the health problems to be as the effect of stress that will invites the high blood pressure, headaches, chest pains, fatigue and sleep disorders. The author also directing the cognitive process whereby the employee had hard in concentration on works and also with low memory to make some decisions. It also effected the emotional reactions towards employee in depressed mood states, anxiety, irritability and also loss of confidence. Moreover, there also have a consequence in organizational outcomes in terms of absenteeism and presenteesm (“the employees come to the work but mentally absences”), staff turnover and injuries.
According to Research on Work-related, 2000 indicated in Education International (EI)/European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) (n. d) stress was a negatives psychological in cognitive and emotional components that were gives an impact to the employees health and also to the organizations itself. Stress also addressed the results of performance range in work demands and consecutively contributes to an equally broad range of health outcomes, EI/ETUCE (n. d). On the other hand, they found that the few of European countries teachers rises in illness, mainly stress-related illnesses because of the receiving workload. In fact, the past scholar (Report, 1999) reported in EI/ETUCE (n.d) stress among teachers were affected their health lifestyle in which they got their nervous overload, disappointment and frustration, socio-economic aspects, lack of job stability and security. Plus, the report also declined that school environment, the lack of social recognition and organizational aims from administration school also contributed to the teachers stress.
Despite from the past fact also indicated that stress gives a huge impact in education whereby the teachers admitted with illness that can results in adoption of dogmatic and authoritarian measures, making the job routine and took little initiative, involved in absenteeism, depression and stress, requesting a transfer and quit from the professions (Report, 1999). Studies from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) stated that stress were surged in all professions includes in education especially teachers profession, therefore, stress cannot (Fadzli, Ching, Syeriza, Nazrah, 2005).
Stress nowadays involves in all jobs or works in the whole earth’s globes, there will no excuse about jobs or works that no stresses at all, even also the students. Focuses in Malaysia Berita Harian, 2012, list downed the jobs specifically according to the ranking whereby the first in rank was police (53.7%), followed by prison officer (48.8%), firefighter (47.3%), teachers (45.8%), nurses (42.3%), doctors (40.7%), pharmacy assistance (35.2%) and etc. Bernama (2015) the Malaysians’ Stress Level Higher than Global Average proposed that 63% level of stress was having the higher compared with the global average 53%. In the same news also indicates that majority of Malaysian’s was stressful and it does to closer burning in 5 years.
Malaysia Health Minister, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said that the Ministry of Health was in worries because the increases of mental health among citizens in Malaysia had been cured by the public hospital rose up to 15.6% or 400 227 patients compared in 2009. He stated that by the year of 2020, one of the mental disorders which are depression might be in a second rank in health problems after the cardiovascular diseases (CVD).
Dr. Aminuddin Mansor describes in Kosmo News, 2013 that too much stress will addressed the mental disorders especially for those who cannot try to avoid too much stress. According to him, female were the most stressful a day in 2013 that full with challenges. Mental Disorders can escort the angriness, violence and depression that lead to the murderer and suicide. Moreover, the news reported that 22% of Malaysians found a brief walk to be a good stress reliever. Likewise, Malaysians having a freedom when it comes to “outstation”/work outside the main office were achieving 69% of good work-life balance and beliefs it was a flexibility when off (Bernama, 2015).
Stress can be related to health problem lifestyle of a teacher. According to the past scholar mentioned in Fadzli et al (2005) the teacher’s stress were directing the changes in psychological whereby the teacher was unsatisfied in their works, changes in physiology in which increasing in blood pressure, changes in behavior (absenteesm). Another guru’s stated that the pro-longed stress among teachers lead to the “burnout” may welcomed the unsatisfied jobs, there will have gap between teachers and students, low motivation of teachers and lacking self-efficacy to achieved the ultimate education’s goals.
In addition, at the workplace (school) also plays a role whereby, the teachers contributing in work pressure was inefficient because the teachers experienced the depression, worries, anger and phobia. Those stress was came from the teacher’s environment and cognitive factors of that particular teachers. Therefore, the teacher which cannot control their stress will address the illness or may lose their lives (Allen, 1983). Helathworks. Com (2015), stress in short-term is OK because it will not last, but the long-term stress will effecting your physically, socially and behavior in no so good way.
Additionally, a freelancer worker achieves 69% of relaxed and free to change their location and time. they were less stressed than regular staff (Bernama, 2015). Previously, Rudd & Wiseman (1962) proposed in Fadzlie et al, (2005) the causes of stress among teachers was:
According to Kyriacou (1987), stressful teacher may formed the bad result of working in teaching or in the other task that been given to they. Previous gurus describes that the tiredness and absenteeism were born from stress (Furnham, 1997). Prior researcher indicates from the stress may piloting the teacher tend to decline the performance and the production in teaching Atkinson, (1994); Schafer (1996).
Meanwhile, prior studied (Robbins, 1986) report that stress in workplace may increase the cost, unbalance services in organization, loss on work, however, it also being unhappiness and loss of spiritual among workers (Griffin, 1990) no harmonizing between top level management and lower level management (Hubbard, 1995), unproductively workers, burnout (Dunham, 1992), unsatisfied with their job satisfaction (Dick, Philips, Margburg and Wagner, 2001). However, in all the factors of stress that was affecting job performance the individual also can create his/her personal problems.
Other prior proposed Hargreaves (1999); Pitchers (1996) concerned about teaching was the professions that causal the stress more rather than other professions. In additions, stress was thoroughly effected the teacher and students in teaching route (Forlin, Doughlas and Hattie, 1996).
Teaching professions was one of the hard task/ job in the society or community that need a highest sacrifieses to achieve the ultimate goals of the school and also the Education Ministry. Therefore, the highest stress can cause the disturbances of the education operation need to took care (Fadzli et al, 2005).
Therefore, the researcher is more focus on stress in teachers that will affect the teacher’s health problem and also their job performance. This study will also help the educations operations smoothly in line with Malaysian Educations Philosophies to achieve their goals and objectives.
