Strategies for managing professional stress among primary education teachers: an analytical study

The phenomenon of stress is widespread in all professions and jobs, but its intensity, nature, and requirements vary from one profession to another. The teaching profession is considered a stressful profession, which was confirmed by studies that concluded that there are high levels of stress in the field of the teaching profession. The current study aimed to try to know the impact of professional stress on teachers, by identifying some of the negative effects and addressing them, in addition to knowing the most important positive effects, as well as knowing the most important methods and strategies for managing and alleviating professional stress, as well as ways to prevent its impact, by addressing the elements by following the descriptive analytical approach based on a theoretical survey of scientific literature. The study reached a set of suggestions that would contribute to clarifying the negative effects of professional stress on teachers and ways to manage and mitigate it.