ERIC Number: ED296266
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1988-Apr
Pages: 29
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Sources of Stress and Burnout among Faculty Developers and Coping Strategies--Cross-Cultural Perspectives.
Perlberg, Arye; Kremer-Hayon, Lya
This study, carried out in two phases, was conducted to examine the sources of stress and burnout among faculty developers and the coping strategies the faculty use. In the first phase, in-depth interviews with individual faculty developers and their superiors were carried out in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Western Europe, and Scandanavia. Another data source was group discussions in national and international workshops for faculty developers from different cultures. Based on the information gathered, a more structured in-depth interview was designed and carried out on a group of faculty developers during an International Conference on Improving University Teaching (1987). The interviewees were 12 faculty members from 12 different countries covering all continents. The content-analysis of the protocolled interviews yielded several categories of reference: symptoms of stress and burnout, sources of stress and burnout, sources of satisfaction, isolation, coping strategies, and miscellaneous. No salient differences resulting from cultural attributes were observed. The results suggest that the stress and burnout syndromes and their sources are intellectual in nature. (Author)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Israel
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