Causes of Stress among Secondary School Teachers in Ikere-Ekiti Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria

The attributes and qualities of a good teacher are numerous and fulfilling these can become a major source of stress for teachers most especially in secondary schools. As a builder of the nation with so much lying on their shoulder everyday, weekly and termly, meeting up with the task of producing and transforming individual into productive and capable citizen that can contribute to national development is a work that cannot be separated from stress. It was on this note that the researcher sought to focus on causes and management strategies of stress among secondary school teachers in Ikere-Ekiti Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The survey design of the descriptive type of research was used for the study. The sample size of three hundred (300) secondary school teachers was used for the study. The instrument for data collection was a self-constructed questionnaire. The data gathered from the administered questionnaire was analysed using inferential statistics of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings on effect of career upgrading on stress level of secondary school teachers revealed that the effect of career upgrading was statistically significant as F-value (292.525) was very high, df = (1, 298) and P