A comparative study of occupational stress of the teachers with reference to special and normal schools

Pages: 273-277
M R. Banahatti (KLES Lingaraj College (Autonomous), Belagavi, Karnataka)

The present study was taken up with the objective to know the level of Occupational stress among Normal and special school teachers to compare the occupational stress of male and female of normal and special school teachers. Random sampling technique is adopted to two groups of professional i;e special and normal school teachers. Each group is consisting of 30 teachers. Thus the total sample of study comprises of 60 teachers. Occupational Stress Index scale developed by Srivastava and Singh (1984) was used to assess the data. On the whole obtained results revealed the significant difference between normal school teachers and special school teachers on occupational stress and difference found between male and female of normal school as well as special school. Significant difference was not found between normal school teachers and special school male and female teachers.