A comparative study of stress among university faculty in China and Japan

Stress among university faculty has received considerable treatment in research literature in thepast decade in higher education, but very little studyhas been undertaken from a comparative perspective. Thispaper reports the results of a comparative study inmeasuring stress among university faculty in Chinaand Japan using a questionnaire survey. It analyzes therelationship between stress and health indifferent age groups of the faculty and thedifferences in the nature and structure of the stressbetween China and Japan. The research suggests thatstress of Chinese and Japanese university facultycan be described as ``social-transformation stress' and``direction-conflict stress', respectively.