Indywidualizm a społeczne źródła stresu zawodowego nauczyciela, wynikające ze specyfiki jego pracy
Individualism and Social Sources of Teachers’ Occupational Stress Resulting from the Specificity of the Job

Author(s): Anna Tyl
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Educational Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: individualism; occupational stress in teachers; specificity of a teacher’s job
Summary/Abstract: The phenomenon of loneliness of a teacher, which is characteristic for the culture of individualism, determines stress that is growing in this professional group and is currently perceived as a social problem. The article deals with the issues of individualism and social reasons for stress in a teacher’s job, and it is supplemented by statements made by representatives of this professional group and gathered within the author’s research. Analysis of the empirical data is based upon the idea by Andrzej Janowski, who has defined the specificity of a teacher’s job by means of five characteristics. They include: immersion (involvement), isolation, constant necessity to be ready to react immediately, authority over students, and autonomy. In description of the study results, there have been distinguished teachers of music, whose assessments were observed to display the highest divergence of opinions regarding qualifying this group of teachers as the least or the most endangered with stress at school.

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