The relationship between occupational stress, occupational motivation, and job ‎satisfaction among teachers in the Sultanate of Oman

Abstract

The research aimed to identify the level of occupational stress, occupational motivation, and job satisfaction among schoolteachers in the Sultanate of Oman, and to verify whether there is a statistically significant correlation between the three variables. The research relied on the descriptive correlational approach, to measure the variables on the research sample, a questionnaire was prepared consisting of 63 phrases. The questionnaire was applied to a simple random sample of 4-23 schoolteachers in the Sultanate of Oman for the academic year 2022-2023. The results indicated that the level of occupational stress of teachers was average,  and the level of occupational motivation was medium as well, while the level of job satisfaction among teachers appeared low, and  the results of the research hypotheses revealed a negative and inverse relationship between occupational stress, occupational motivation and job satisfaction, while the results of the hypothesis of the relationship between job satisfaction and occupational motivation indicated a positive correlation relationship. The results were discussed considering the agreement and disagreement between the previous studies included in the research, and recommendations for the results of the research were presented.

Keywords: Occupational stress, Occupational motivation, Job satisfaction, Oman School Teachers