Occupational stress and psychological well-being among male and female teachers

Pages: 1539-1541
Shannaz Parveen (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)

Stress in general, and occupational stress in particular is a fact of modern life that seems to have been on increase. Teachers stress is a real phenomenon and is associated with problems of recruitment, health and retention of teachers. This work is an effort to study and compare the occupational stress and well being among male and female teachers. This study was conducted on a sample of 100 male and female teachers. Occupational stress scale developed by (Ansari, khan, & khan, 2017) and Psychological well being scale developed by Nishizawa (1996) was used in the study. To see the difference in both the groups we applied ‘t’ test. The result revealed significant differences. Occupational stress was found high among female teachers as compared to male teachers and psychological well being was found high in male teachers as compared to the female teachers.