he comparison of job stress in school headmasters with internal and external locus of control

Subject Areas : Educational Science

gholamreza khoeenezhad ¹ , alireza rajaei ² , abdolamid shakib ³ , fatemeh rahimi ⁴

1 - استادیار دانشگاه ازاد اسلامی مشهد
2 - استادیار دانشگاه ازاد اسلامی تربت جام
3 - عضو هیأت علمی دانشگاه ازاد اسلامی تربت جام
4 - کارشناس ارشد روانشناسی

Received: 2016-01-01 Accepted : 2016-01-01 Published : 2008-12-21

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Abstract :

T The locus of control is one of the personality features that affects many behavioral aspects of  both  headmasters and their staff the primary purpose of this  research was to compare job  stress in school headmasters with internal and external locus of  control. The participants were 120 school headmasters (58 males & 62 females) from different grades in torbat_e_Jam, that were selected by strafified random sampling . rutters, Locus of control and job stress questionnaire, (Gasamei, 1377) were instruments of this research. The data showed that there was no significant difference between the rate of  Job stress and internal, exteral locus of control among  school headmasters. Also, there was no significant  difference in the rate of job stress  between  male & female  school  headmasters and there  was no interaction  between gender and locus of  control in school  headmaster’s job stress. But results  showed  that there  was a significant  difference between  stress among school headmasters with more and different experiences. School headmasters  having more  than 10 years of experience showed less job stress than their counterparts  with  less than 5 years.