摘要:The job stress model was developed by Boyle, Borg, Falzon, and Jr. (1995) with
20 items in five (5) dimensions named workloads, professional recognition,
students’ misbehaviour, time and resource constraint, as well as peer relationship.
A study was carried out later by Collie, Shapka, and Perry (2012) using the same
items as proposed by Boyle et al. (1995), with one (1) additional four (4) items
dimension named technology. The aim of this particular study was to re-examine
and re-confirm that the measurement model for job stress construct with the
respective dimensions and items would hold for teachers in the primary schools
setting in Kelantan, Malaysia. Thus, this study employed confirmatory factor
analysis to achieve the objective. As a result, this study proposed a measurement
model which described factors contributing primary school teachers’ job stress
with eight (8) dimensions, namely T1 (students misbehaviour), T2 (workloads), T3
(professional recognition), T4 (time and resource constraint), T5 (interpersonal
relationship), T6 (training and support towards technology), T7 (curriculum
facilities and exposure constraints) and T8 (technology literacy). This model
evaluated its construct validity by estimating both convergent and discriminant
validity, while evaluating the internal consistency of the proposed model itself, and
estimates how the instrument determines the reasonable relations among the latent
factors mentioned above, and how it describes the reasonable results and assigns
the quality of data fit within it. The specific model can be used by researchers to
evaluate the effect of different aspects of job stress in the education institutions.