Anxiety and Depression among School Principals – Warning, Principalship Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

Abstract

A principal who participated in an exploratory study to ascertain the extent and sources of stress among school principals realized the apparent isolation and lack of support felt by a significant number of school principals. Argues that the high incidence of anxiety and depression among principals is in large measure related to the insistence on educational administration being a technical activity. Concludes with an appeal for a new notion of educational administration and raises a number of issues for further research.

Citation

Carr, A. (1994), "Anxiety and Depression among School Principals – Warning, Principalship Can Be Hazardous to Your Health", Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 32 No. 3, pp. 18-34. https://doi.org/10.1108/09578239410063094