Primary teachers in their 40s suffer most stress [IrishTimes]
- Published: 24 June 2011
PRIMARY TEACHERS in Ireland enjoy high levels of job satisfaction and virtually all say they are happy in their job.
A study by the Teaching Council and the Economic and Social Research Institute found that teachers were overwhelmingly positive about their work.
Almost two-thirds of those teaching nine-year-olds said they were “very satisfied”. Only a small proportion of teachers (2 per cent) were not satisfied in their job.
A broadly similar pattern was evident among primary school principals. Forty-nine per cent reported that they were “very satisfied” and 44 per cent “fairly satisfied”.
These high levels of satisfaction were reported despite “the occupational stress evident at all stages of the teaching career’’. Teachers in their 40s had higher stress levels than other age groups.
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