ABSTRACT
This study sought to find out the relationship between teacher stress and job satisfaction among Academic Staff of tertiary institutions in Kaduna State. The study was guided by five research questions and five null hypotheses that were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Correlational Design was used in this study.The Population of the study consist of 6,662 academic staff from six tertiary institutions located in Kaduna State. A simple random sampling technique was used to select 10% of the population of the study constituting 666 respondents. The instruments tagged Teacher Job Stress Questionnaire (TJSQ) developed by the researcherand The Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) by Spector (1999)were used for data collection.Descriptive statistics of frequency counts, simple percentage, mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the research questions whileHypotheses one and three were tested by Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC), null hypotheses two and four were tested using the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) while Hypothesis Five was tested using t-test. All hypotheses are tested at 0.05 alpha level of significance.Results indicates thatInverse relationship exists between teacher stress and job satisfaction among academic staff of tertiary institutions in Kaduna State (r= -0.79, p = 0.01). This suggests that increase in job stress would lead to decrease in job satisfaction.; Age of the academic staff of tertiary institutions in Kaduna State has no influence on their level of job stress and job satisfaction (f = 1.16, p = 0.33 and f = 1.48, p = 0.30). This suggests that the academic staff of all age groups manifest stress and job satisfaction at the same level; Gender of the academic staff of tertiary institutions in Kaduna State has no influence on their level of job stress and job satisfaction (r = 0.604, p = 0.021 and r = 0.567, p = 0.002. this suggests male and female academic staff manifest stress and job satisfaction at the same level; Working experience of the academic staff of tertiary institutions in Kaduna State had influence on their level of job stress and job satisfaction (f= 8.79, p = 0.00 and f = 5.15, p = 0.03). This suggests that there is significant difference in the level of job stress and job satisfaction of academic staff based on working experience and; Academic staff of Federal owned institutions expresses higher level of job satisfaction than their counterparts in the state owned tertiary institutions (t = 0.54, p = 0.59 andt = 1.99, p = 0.05). This suggests that academic staff of federal owned and state owned Institutions experiences stress at the same level but differ in job satisfaction level. It was recommended that the Management of the Tertiary institutions should expand the existing infrastructural facilities in the school and improve on staff working conditions among others.