Impact of Job Stress on the Professional Development of College English Teachers: Job Engagement as Mediator
Keywords:
Job Stress, College English Teachers, Professional Development, Job EngagementAbstract
The research objective is to discuss the influencing mechanism of job stress on college English teachers’ professional development in China via job engagement. To achieve the research objective, this study takes 412 college English teachers in China as the research subject. In-depth interview and questionnaire with the help of SPSS 24.0 and AMOS 22.0 are used to explore the influencing mechanism. It is found that challenge stress has a significant positive impact on job engagement, and college English teachers’ professional development; hindrance stress has a significant negative impact on job engagement, and college English teachers’ professional development; job engagement has a significant positive impact on college English teachers’ professional development; job engagement has a partial mediation effect between challenge stress and college English teachers’ professional development; and job engagement has a partial mediation effect between hindrance stress and college English teachers’ professional development. In conclusion, this study contributes to college English teachers’ professional development research since it gives evidence to support the conceptual framework. Besides, it extends the outreach of managerial theories and the application of empirical methodology in educational domain.
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