The purpose of this study is to analyze stress factors of sports instructors taking
charge of the physical education classes in elementary schools, whose roles are to
activate physical education classes and to relieve teachers' stress caused by physical
education classes. For this, 201 sports instructors, taking part in the supplementary
education carried out in the training institute of a university of education, were
surveyed and the results were as follows. First, the average value of stress stemmed
from physical education classes was not high overall. Second, according to gender,
females' average value of stress caused by physical education classes was higher than
males'. Specifically, the average values of classroom environment factor and classroom
facility factor were higher than any other factors to both female and male sports
instructors. Also, there was no significant difference between females and males on
the stress factor originated from their own personality trait and the stress related to
school curricula. Third, sports instructors who did not graduate from college of
education presented the higher average value of stress than those who graduated
from college of education. Precisely, there was a meaningful differences between
these two groups on the stress factors caused by school curricula, teaching ability,
and personality trait. Fourth, in terms of the stress related to the service area, sports
instructors who worked in metropolitan cities indicated the relatively higher average
value of stress than those who did not. In detail, the average values of stress factors
by classroom environment and classroom facility were high. Fifth, in teaching career,
sports instructors who had less than 1 year teaching experience showed the higher
average values than any others. To be specific, there was a significant difference
between two groups on the stress factor derived from school curricula.