Vol. 9 No. 2, pp. 13-20
December 2022
ISSN: 2782-9332 (Print)
Date Received: September 13, 2022; Date Revised: February 22, 2023; Date Accepted: March 2, 2023
Eliseo P. Marpa
Philippine Normal University Visayas, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental
Marpa.ep@pnu.edu.ph
Asia Pacific Journal of Educational Perspective
Preservice Teachers’ Spirituality, Level of Stress, and Academic Performance in the Context of Outcome-Based Teacher Education Curriculum (OBTEC) Are they 439 KB 3 downloads
Vol. 9 No. 2, pp. 13-20 December 2022 ISSN: 2782-9332 (Print) Date Received: September...
Many students are stressed due to combining busy life with the responsibilities of studies and/or work while also making time for friends and family. These observations motivated the researcher
to determine whether a relationship existed between preservice teachers’ spirituality, level of stress, and academic performance. To address the problem, the researcher used a quantitative correlation method utilizing the adopted research instruments administered to the randomly selected 125 participants. The study results show that preservice teachers’ spirituality is high while their stress level is low with average academic performance. Results also show that spirituality is related negatively to preservice teachers’ stress levels. Further, preservice teachers’ spirituality and stress levels are unrelated to their academic performance. This means that preservice teachers’ spirituality influences their stress levels while managing their academic performance. Thus, this study suggests strengthening programs related to spirituality. Stress is inevitable. Every second, every minute, stress is experienced. Managing stress will enable preservice teachers to do better in their studies.
Keywords – Academic Performance, Level of Stress, OBTEC Curriculum, Preservice Teachers, Spirituality