Social Support as a Coping Strategy of Ameliorating Teaching Practicum Related Stress.

The current study examined the use of social support as a coping strategy to ameliorate teaching practicum related stress. A survey design was used to collect data from the respondents. The sample consisted of 72 male and 81 female (n=153) Bachelor of Education pre-service teachers. The data were analyzed using the Chi square test. The findings revealed that .all the pre-service teachers used social support as a strategy of coping with teaching practicum related stress and there were no statistically significant differentiations with regard to the participants’ gender, age and personality in the use of social support to reduce the perceived teaching practicum stress. Based on the findings the study recommended that all stakeholders should provide pre-service teachers with quality social support to enable them to reduce teaching practicum related stress