الضغوط المهنية لمعلمي التربية الخاصة في ضوء بعض المتغيرات : دراسة عبر ثقافية

Abstract EN

This study aimed at studying professional stress facing special education teachers in the Egyptian and Saudi cultural environments and its relation to some variables including category of children's disability, teacher's gender and experience.

The study was applied to 224 special education teachers in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

It used the Special Education Teachers' Professional Stress Scale which was prepared by the researcher.

T-test, MANOVA, Scheffe tests were used in statistical analysis of data.

Results show that the most important stress in both Egyptian and Saudi environments are characteristics of children with special needs, teachers' relations with children's parents, work environment, work nature and finally the teachers' relations with their managers and colleagues.

Results also show that there were statistically significant differences in professional stress attributed to the cultural environment and the category of children's disability in favour of the Egyptian environment and teachers working with children with hearing disability, but there were no statistically significant differences that can be attributed to the interaction between the two variables.

There were also statistically significant differences attributed to the cultural environment and the teacher's gender in favour of teachers working in the Egyptian environment and in favour of females on the "work environment" dimension, but there no statistically significant differences that can be attributed to the interaction between the two variables.

There were statistically significant differences attributed to the cultural environment and the teacher's experience in favour of the Egyptian environment and teachers with shorter experience.

Results were discussed and explained.

Recommendations are included.