Siow, Jasmine Jie Yin (2023) A study of examine the potential association between student-teacher relationships with preschool teachers’ stress in Klang valley. Final Year Project, UTAR.
Abstract
Within the preschool context, student-teacher relationship (STR) assumes a critical role in supporting children's learning and development. STR not only have impact on children but also the teachers’ stress level. However, the potential association between STR and preschool teachers’ stress level is often overlooked especially in the local setting. Thus, this study is to find out the possible association between STR and the stress level of preschool teacher in Klang Valley area. Researcher hypothesizes that STR will have association with teachers’ stress level such as conflict relationship will be associated with high stress level while closure relationship will be associated with low stress level for preschool teachers. This is a quantitative research study with the sample size of 66 preschool teachers who work in Klang Valley. The participants provided their responds by answering a survey that used Student-Teacher Relationship ScaleShort Form (STRS_SF) by Whitaker et al., (2015), and Teacher Stress Scale (TSS) by Chen et al. (2022). The analysis results of Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient supported that conflict relationship is significantly associated with high stress level for preschool teachers (r = .260, p= .035). As for closure relationship, there is no association found with lower stress level for preschool teachers (r= -.205, p= .098). This study has significant implication for parties in the early childhood education industry. Recommendations were made to suggest ways to overcome the limitations by increasing sample size according to sample to item ratio and considering employing a different sampling method.
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