Sources of Psychological Stress in Children as Perceived by Children and Teachers

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the sources of psychological stress in children as perceived by children and teachers in public schools in Jordan, where the descriptive approach was used, in addition to the use of a questionnaire that consisted of (36) A stressful event as a study tool, which was applied to (500) children and (150) teachers, in the second semester of the year (2022/2023); The study found that the prevalence of psychological stress among children was high, in addition to the presence of statistically significant differences between the children’s estimates and the teachers’ estimates of the sources of psychological stress in children, which were in favor of the children, in addition to the sources of psychological stress that occupied the top of the ranking in terms of children’s evaluation and teachers’ evaluation. They were not similar, as only two out of ten sources were in the top ten among children and teachers.