Relationship between Teachers’ Time Management Skills and Job Stress in Girls’ Schools in Ardabil City

The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between time management skills and job stress among female high school teachers. The research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population was all the female high school teachers in Ardabil city (N=530), from among whom, 216 teachers were selected based on Morgan's sampling table with a stratified random sampling method. The data were collected by Bordbar Job Stress Questionnaire and Queen's Time Management Questionnaire. The formal and content validity of both questionnaires were confirmed using experts’ opinion, and their reliability was estimated via Cronbach's alpha method, which was 0/87 for job stress and 0/76 for time management questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed using one group t-test, correlation coefficient and analysis of variance. The findings of the research showed that there is a significant negative relationship between time management skills and job stress among teachers; The current status of teachers' time management skills is in a desirable level, but the job stress of teachers were higher than the mean. Teachers with more work experience had the highest level of time management skills, and younger teachers had more job stress than older colleagues.