The findings are the same for headteachers with regards to the support that they require from their governing bodies, local authorities or academy chains.
The research, which is on-going, has been co-funded by the Education Support Partnership (ESP) and the Economic and Social Research Council.
Researcher Candy Whittome, a PhD student from Birkbeck University of London’s Department of Organisational Psychology, is using data gathered from the ESP’s Positive Workplace Survey.
This reveals that over the past five years, job strain has been the single most important factor causing teachers to access the ESP’s 24-hour help lines.
Furthermore, an ESP survey last year found that a quarter of teachers felt that unreasonable demands from line managers would be to blame for their likely departure from education.
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