An analysis of role stress factors as perceived by secondary school teachers

Pages: 228-230
Prabhat Kumar Mishra (Department of Educational Psychology and Foundations of Education, NCERT, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi)

The concept of “stress” is one of the most significant ones ever developed in the social and biochemical sciences. However, theories of stress have varied greatly in their basic approaches as well as in their definitions of stress. A prime source of confusion in stress research is inadequate conceptualisation of the stress construct. Agarwala, Malhan and Singh (1979) believed that this confusion in definition existed because the same term is used differently by the scholars with different orientations.