The Role of Hindrance Stressor and Distress in Teachers’ Work-Life Balance
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210423.025How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Distress, work-life balance, workload
- Abstract
Excessive workload is appraised as hindrance stressor because it obstructs teachers’ achievement in the workplace and then to a negative response like distress, the response would harm the work-life balance. Hence, this study aims to examine the relationship between hindrance stressor and work-life balance through the mediation role of distress. Through a survey, 491 valid questionnaires were collected from public secondary school teachers in Sabah. Challenge-hindrance Appraisal Scale was used to analyse hindrance stressor, Stress Professional Positive and Negative Questionnaire measured distress, and Survey Work-home Interaction-Nijmegan scaled work-life balance. Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to test hypotheses. The result showed the indirect effect of hindrance stressor on work-life balance through the mediation role of distress was significant. A high level of hindrance stressor increases distress, in turn, lead to negative interaction, decrease positive interaction between work and life. These findings could empower education stakeholders to acknowledge excessive workload obstruct positive interaction between work and life. This study implies control workload proportion is essential that may ultimately improve work-life balance.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Pan Lee Ching AU - Chua Bee Seok AU - Rosnah Ismail PY - 2021 DA - 2021/04/24 TI - The Role of Hindrance Stressor and Distress in Teachers’ Work-Life Balance BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Psychological Studies (ICPSYCHE 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 174 EP - 181 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210423.025 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210423.025 ID - Ching2021 ER -