The Role of Covid-19 Anxiety, Worry and Negative Beliefs about The Uncontrollability and Danger of Worry in Predicting Teacher Job Stress in the Corona Pandemic

Improving human resources and developing employees' performance has been one of the important goals of education. Occupational stress was one of the major problems of teachers during the corona pandemic, which can have a negative impact on this important goal. The aim of this study was to investigate The Role of Covid-19 Anxiety, Worry and Negative Beliefs about the Uncontrollability and Danger of Worry in Predicting Teacher Job Stress in the Corona Pandemic. This research is descriptive and was conducted by correlation method. The statistical population of the study consisted of all school teachers in Ardakan in the academic year 1401-1400. Sampling was performed using the voluntary method and 357 people were subjected to job stress questionnaires coronary heart disease anxiety, negative beliefs about uncontrollability and risk of metacognitive beliefs, then responded to the Concern of the Thought Control Questionnaire, which was published online. Finally, 286 data were statistically analyzed using Pearson correlation and multiple regression methods at the level of 0.05 and SPSS26 software. The results showed that there was a significant positive relationship between Covid-19 anxiety, anxiety and negative beliefs about uncontrollability and anxiety risk with teachers' job stress (P<0.001). The results of regression analysis also showed that 44% of the variance of teachers' job stress with Covid-19 anxiety, anxiety and negative beliefs about uncontrollability and anxiety risk are predicted. Concern also played a greater role in predicting and explaining teachers' job stress in the Corona pandemic.