The Role of Emotional Awareness and Job Stress: Basis for the Development of L.O.V.E Program in Kabalacan Integrated School Teachers

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Stress is recognized worldwide as a major challenge to workers health and the healthiness of organizations. Pressures at work can bring about stress. Job stress can be a real problem to the organization as well as to the workers and it can manifest itself in numerous ways. ). The researchers with the approval of the school head decided to conduct such study to determine the effect of stress brought by work to the teachers of Kablacan IS and for them to develop their emotional awareness in order to cope up with those stressors so quality work will be served to the institution, and they found out that there is a moderate negative relationship between emotional awareness and job stress resulting to the implementation of LOVE (Living Out Victorious Experiences) Program.

METHODS

This study used the descriptive-correlative design. This utilized the quantitative method of research. To describe the extent of job stress among teachers, frequency countsand weighted mean were used. To determine the relationship of emotional intelligence towards job stress Pearson r Correlation Coefficient was utilized. The researchers conducted the action research at Kablacan Integrated School with 46 teachers.

RESULTS

Stress is evident to the respondents and got an overall mean of 4.06 with the description often. It is supported that a range of somatic and mental ailments caused by stress can be, tension headaches, allergies, back problems, colds and flu, depression (Arroba & James, 2005). This may also include anxiety, irritation, tension and sleeplessness and may lead to health compromising coping strategies such as increased consumption of the strength of the emotional intelligence among the teachers of Kablacan Integrated School and got an overall mean of 2. 34 that has the description Seldom.

Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer (2000) in their influential article "Emotional Intelligence," defined emotional intelligence as, "the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions" . Emotionally intelligent people are defined in part as those who regulate their emotions according to a logically consistent model of emotional functioning.

DISCUSSIONS

The data shows that there is a moderate negative relationship between emotional Awareness and Job Stress, which is supported by the r-value-0.48. Individuals have used various methods to handle stress, but the best that includes here is using their intelligence, especially the emotional intelligence (Sirin, 2007). This research proposed an intervention on how to respond on the job stress among teachers of Kablacan Integrated School. LOVE (Living Out Victorious Experiences) Program will took place every last Friday of the month, the said program emphasizes on the stress management techniques and strategies with life-enriching methods of facing future pressures. Furthermore, this program was designed to help the teachers in terms of managing their stressors since according to Sternberg (2006) emotional intelligence may be learned, developed, and improved.