This document discusses stress experienced by school principals. It begins with an introduction and lists interviews conducted with three principals. It then defines stress and discusses its physical and psychological effects. Various forms of stress are outlined, including acute, episodic acute, and chronic stress. Common causes of stress are listed, such as work overload, personal factors, job characteristics, and lack of control. The document provides an overview of stress experienced by principals in their roles.

1. Prepared by:
MANNILOU M. PASCUA
Ed. D. EM Student
Approved by:
MARIO C. PASION, Ed.D., Ffp
Professor
Republic of the Philippines
LAGUNA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
Santa Cruz Campus
Santa Cruz, Laguna
GRADUATE STUDIES AND APPLIED RESEARCH

3. Interview with Mrs. Belinda V.
Acaylar Principal of Cornelio C.
Dalena E/S at Pakil, Laguna

4. Interview with Mrs.
Arlene B. Reyes Principal
of Galalan E/S at Pangil,
Laguna

5. Interview with Mrs. Antonia Dela
Cueva Principal of Pakil Central
E/S at Pakil, Laguna

6. Definition of Stress:
Stress - means the pressure
people feel in life. The presence
of stress at work is felt by a lot
of people in many jobs. Stress is
quite harmful because it leads
to psychological disorders.
• Stress produces numerous
symptoms which vary according
to persons, situations, and
severity. These can include
physical health decline as well
as depression.
Image by Berita Terbaru

7. The internal body system changes
as it try to cope with stress and more
often it triggers high blood pressure,
stroke and other disorders. Stress
becomes a problem when it
interferes with a person’s ability to
do daily life tasks over a period of a
few weeks or impacts their health in
a dangerous or risky way.

8. The Facts About Stress
• Stress is linked to the six leading
causes of death--heart disease,
cancer, lung ailments, accidents,
cirrhosis of the liver, and suicide
• 43% of all adults suffer adverse
health effects from stress
from American Academy of Family Physicians

9. Image by Berita Terbaru

10. Forms of Stress:
According to psychiatrist, psychologist and
doctors, they found out that stress can be
temporary or long term, mild or sever
depending on how long it causes to continue.
Other findings include the condition of
individual how powerful they are and how
strong the employee’s recovery are. If stress is
temporary and mild, most people can handle it
or at least recover from its effects rather
quickly, Severe, the employee need medical
attention or hospitalization.

11. Stressors - the condition that cause
stress. Even one stressors may
cause major stress. Usually
stressors combine to pressure an
employee in a lot of ways that
later develops into stress.

12. Acute stress - is the most common
form of stress. It comes from
demands and pressures of the
recent past and anticipated
demands and pressures of the near
future. This type of stress is short
term, acute stress doesn't have
enough time to do the extensive
damage associated with long-term
stress.

13. The most common symptoms are:
Emotional distress, Muscular problems,
Stomach, gut and bowel problems, Transient
over arousal leads to elevation in blood
pressure, rapid heartbeat, sweaty palms,
heart palpitations, dizziness, migraine
headaches, cold hands or feet, shortness of
breath and chest pain.
Acute stress can crop up in anyone's life,
and it is highly treatable and manageable.

14. 2) Episodic acute stress - are
those, however, who suffer
acute stress frequently, whose
lives are so disordered that they
are studies in chaos and crisis.
They're always in a rush, but
always late.

15. 3) Chronic stress - comes when a person never
sees a way out of a miserable situation. It's the
stress of unrelenting demands and pressures
for seemingly interminable periods of time.
With no hope, the individual gives up searching
for solutions.
Some chronic stresses stem from traumatic,
early childhood experiences that become
internalized and remain forever painful and
present. Some experiences profoundly affect
personality.
• by Lyle H. Miller, PhD, and Alma Dell Smith, PhD.

16. Causes of Stress:
•
Work Overload
• complex assignments
• new technology
• project deadlines
• blame for mistakes or
lapses
• employers attitude
• poor supervision
• improper instructions
• additional roles
• organization’s culture
• employee values
• difference in values
• type of job
• routine
• repetitive work

17. • rotating shift work
• machine-paced tasks
• hazardous environments
• night shifting
• working many hours in
front of the computer
• job security
• family problems
• financial problems
• numerous meeting
• lots of reports
• responsibility for the
work of others
• resources shortages
• low wages and salaries
• lack of perceived control
• frustration
•

18. Personal factors and stress:
It includes: individual needs,
capabilities and personality. Stress can
reach a destructive state more quickly
when experienced by highly emotional
people, those who have low self –
esteem and feel less competent because
of job – mismatch. On the other hand
people who perceive good fit between
job requirements and personal skills have
higher tolerance to stress.

19. • Stress threshold Two major factors help
determine how stress will affect employee
performance.
• Worker vulnerability to stress - is a function of
both internal and external elements.
• One’s stress threshold – is the level of stressors
that one can tolerate before negative feelings
of stress happen that negatively affect
performance. Some people have low threshold
meaning they are easily upset by the slightest
change of disruption in their work.

20. • Perceived control – is the
amount of perceived control
they have over their work and
working conditions. People who
are confident, experienced and
skillful know that they can
endure situations that are
perceived difficult to others.