Stress and strain among union lay officials and rank‐and‐file members
研究以色列高中教师中工会基层干部与普通会员的压力水平及心理紧张差异，发现干部虽面临更高工作负荷和家校冲突，但心理紧张程度与普通会员相同。
Abstract This study explored the effects of fulfilling, on a voluntary basis, the role of lay officials in a local union of teachers on stress, strain, and the relationship between stress and strain. Levels of typical teachers' stress, and their effects on strain, were systematically compared for lay officials and rank‐and‐file members. Data were gathered from 1045 teachers who constituted 60 per cent of the staff in a representative sample of 30 high schools in Israel. Respondents completed a questionnaire that included measures of several types of occupation‐specific stresses and two psychological strains: Somatic complaints and burnout. Relative to the rank‐and‐file members, union officials reported higher levels of overload and parent–teacher conflict, but the same levels of strain. The results of the regression analyses indicated, as expected, that union officials' strain was predicted by stresses associated with their representational duties. For the two groups of teachers, the measures of stress exerted the same detrimental effect on each of the strains. Thus, it was concluded that lay union officials were not at greater risk of psychological strain relative to their fellow teachers.