Relationship between stress and quality of life among older college teachers

Pages: 2017-2020
Farhat Jabin (Department of Psychology, Oriental College, Patliputra University, Patna, Bihar)

In the present research an attempt was made to study the relationship between stress and quality of life among old aged college teachers. The study was carried on by formulating hypotheses that (a) – There would be significant difference between stress and quality of life among older college teachers (b) – The older Male and Female college teacher would differ significantly in terms of their level of stress (c) – The older Male and Female college teacher would differ significantly in terms of their quality of life (d) – Stress and quality of life would be negatively correlated. For empirical verification of these four hypotheses a study was conducted on 100 old aged college teachers (50 Male & 50 Female) from different degree colleges of Patna by employing incidental sampling technique. Their age ranged from 60 to 65 years. Singh personal stress source inventory (SPSSI) developed by Singh and Kumari was employed for measuring level of stress among old aged college teachers. WHOQOL-BREF was applied for measuring quality of life among older college teachers. For the analysis of the obtained scores t-ratio and co-efficient of correlation were computed. The result confirmed all the hypotheses. The findings on the whole indicated that there is significant difference between stress and quality of life of old aged college teachers. Negative correlation between stress and quality of life was also observed by the researcher. The findings of the present research reveal that level of stress plays an important role in determining the quality of life among old aged college teachers. Stress, coupled with other physical and mental problems, gives rise to feelings of depression in the elderly persons and damages their quality of life.