A Study of the Stress of College Lecturers as a Moderator of Path- Goal Relations

This article examines the relationship between leadership styles of degree college principals, stress of the teachers and faculty job satisfaction, acceptance of the leader and job expectancies. The moderator tested in three-way interactions was stress which was investigated as an additional variable. The questionnaire was administered to randomly selected sample comprising of 854 lecturers and 138 principals. MANCOVA was used to find the moderating affect of stress on the relationship of leadership style and subordinates outcomes controlling the effect of role ambiguity and stress of the principals. The findings indicated that stress has the potential to be included as moderator in Path-goal theory because it leaves its grave impacts over time.