الضغوط المهنية التي تواجه معلمي مؤسسات التربية الخاصة في الضفة الغربية

This study aims at finding out the sources of professional stresses facing special education teachers in West Bank. It also aims at identifying if professional stresses as an independent variable affected by dependent variables i.e. sex, age, educational experience, educational level, type of handicap cared by special education, and the supervising party on that directed the institution. More specifically, this study attempted to answer the following questions: 1- What are the professional stresses sources which face teachers of special educational institutions? 2- Do these sources differ according to variables of sex, age, educational experience, educational level, type of handicap cared by special education teacher, and the supervisory that directed the institution? To answer these questions a five-point scale was developed to represent the level of professional stresses, which are selected as follows: unexisting stress source given one point, little stress source given two points, middle stress source given three points, high stress source given four points, and very high stress source given five points. The stress source is considered to be highly stressing when its mean exceeds 205 points. The researcher constructed a questionnaire after investigated its reability, consistency and validity for the purpose constructed for. The questionnaire was then distributed to the whole population of the study, which consisted of (181) special education teachers in the West Bank. In the light of the findings, items of the questionnaire were weighted to find out the mean average of ranking stress sources of the variables, which came as follows : Income was found to be the first ranking stress source (3.47), followed by: students characteristics (2.97), relations with handicap's relatives (2.71), relations with administrators(2.50), curriculum (2.50), professional development (2.38), social status (2.36), work condition with handicaps (2.03), work overload (1.86), and finally relations with colleages (1.68). The final results indicated that there is a difference in the total stress sources level due to the variables of sex for male teachers (2.50); age (41-50) years old; educational level for those who have Bachelor degree (2.51); experience for teachers who worked (5-10)years; type of handicap cared about for hearing handicap (2.59); mental handicap (2.56); finally the variable of supervising party on that institution (2.64) for teachers for local charity institutions.