Research on the source of occupational stress of college teachers

In recent years, China´s higher education has been experiencing a comprehensive reform. With the reform process, the stresses experienced by teachers are much more severe than any time, Stress not only damps their working enthusiasm, but also affects their play of potentials, and even directly harms the teachers´health. Focusing on college teachers, a specific working group, the author conducted a survey and made this paper in order to search their overall feeling of stress and its source. It turns out that college teachers are vulnerable to great stress, which is mostly attributed to heavy workload, desire for self-development, income, and college management.