A Comparative Study of Occupational Stress Level among the Primary School Teachers

Author(s): Dr. Dharmendra Kumar

Abstract:

Stress, in general, and Occupational stress specifically is also a fact of recent day life that seems to possess been on the increase. “Occupational Stress”, an upsetting psychophysical condition, may be a common feature in today’s world where a personal fails to address the strain in his/her job. Teacher stress might be a true phenomenon and is said to problems of recruitment, health and retention of teachers. The foremost purpose of the study was to hunt out and compare the work stress level among female and male elementary school teachers of District Muzaffarpur, Bihar India. The sample consisted of 100 elementary school teachers, 50 male and 50 female teachers. A. K. Srivastava and A. P. Singh’s Occupational Stress Index was administered on selected sample for collection of information. The collected data was statistically analysed and interpreted by applying Mean, S.D and t test. The finding of the paper reveals that male and female elementary school teachers differ significantly on overall occupational stress level. It had been found that female elementary school teachers have more work anxiety level than their male counter parts.

keywords:
Stress, Occupational Stress, Primary School Teachers.

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