Job stress has been of major concern to all and sundry in the educational sector and in the education sector, and as such various authors have in different ways explained the concept of stress according to their own understanding. According to Ecker (1987) job stress is a physical response that the human body involves in other to fuel with a perceived threat to its stability. Everly and Girdqano (1979) are of the view that stress is a fairly predictable arousal of psychological system which if prolonged, can cause fatigue or damage of system to the point of malfunction and disease.
According to Nweze (1995) stress is a
feeling and direct consequences of personal life attributes and disposition as
they affect the individual reactions to personal life experiences including
threats, pleasant and negative ones. Adebanwi (1995) averred that job stress is
a condition or situation where an individual finds him or herself under
frustration, fear, anger, resulting in tension, anxiety, depression, loss of
appetite and in extreme cases loss of sleep at night. In the light of the
above, Panker (1977) regarded stress as a reaction which we experience when we
cannot cope with a situation. Job stress according to Baron (1986) is an
external condition which produces feelings of discomfort, tension, since they
are seen as threatening, frustrating or they exceed the individual’s capacity
to deal with them.
Job
stress therefore is a state of the mind, if the mind is peaceful there will be
no stress but if the mind is troubled then there is too much stress and this
can lead to exhaustion and breakdown physically, mentally and emotionally. From
the various views of job, stress can be looked at from the medical,
psychological and equilibrium destabilization of the individual’s body by
external factors and the interaction between a combination of these and other
factors. Although the term stress is popularly used by almost everybody in the
sphere of human endeavor; its meaning is not generally agreed upon.
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