Investigating Young Indonesian Lecturers: The Role of Money, Social Maturity and Stress in Reflecting Teaching Performance

Abstract

This study aims to define the role of money, social maturity, and stress among young lecturers in Indonesia and their effect on teaching performance as educators. The population of this research was the young Indonesian lecturers actively teaching in university who were considered to have distinguished characters apart from their seniors. A questionnaire was spread to 13 public universities. The findings show that low social maturity escalates teaching performance. Meanwhile, lecturers' orientation on money does not affect teaching performance. Furthermore, stress has a positive effect on teaching performance. The unique fact is that the stress of the lecturers can be alleviated precisely by interacting with students in the class during the teaching and learning activities.