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Construction and Validation of an Instrument for Identifying Stress Coping Strategies of Teachers Working in
the Schools in Tamilnadu
Portia, R.
ABSTRACT
The researcher, having felt the need for an instrument to study the Stress Coping Strategies of teachers,
undertook this project. As the researcher was more interested in identifying how teachers adopt coping
strategies when confronting stress-causing situations rather than how they merely manage stress, the
instrument was designed to measure four categories of coping strategies: AVOID THE STRESSOR,
ALTER THE STRESSOR, ADAPT TO THE STRESSOR, and ACCEPT THE STRESSOR.
The instrument was constructed in the form of a Situational Test. It has been validated and its reliability
has been established.
Keywords: Stress Coping Strategies, Teachers, Instrument Construction, Tool Validation,
Situational Test, Tamil Nadu Schools, Stress Management, Educational Research, Teacher Well-being.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction
in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite this article: Portia, R. (2013). Construction and validation of an instrument for
identifying
stress coping strategies of teachers working in the schools in Tamil Nadu.
Indian Educational Researcher, 6(1), 36–53.
Received: December 20, 2012;
Revision Received: January 10, 2013;
Accepted: January 17, 2013.
Responding Author: Portia, R. @ portia@gmail.com
Article Overview: ISSN: 0974-2123 |
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