OCCUPATIONAL STRESS IN UPPER PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

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Teaching as a profession has an esteemed place among all professions.However teaching as a profession at any level becoming more demanding day by day. Teaching has alsobecame more like a managerial job and is having multidimensional job responsibilities. All these situations greatly enhances the stress among teachers.The present study was designed to explore the relationship of occupational stress of the upper primary school teachers with demographic variables like gender, teaching experience and location of the school in which they were teaching. The sample comprised of 100 male and female upper primary school teachers of government schools of Bhopal district.Occupational Stress Scale constructed and standardized by Dr. Sajid Jamal and Dr. Abdul Raheem, having 30 items was used as research tool. After the data collection, statistical techniques like Mean, SD and t-value was used to interpret the results. Results of the study revealed that male teachers experienced more occupational stress than female teachers. Teachers with an experience of below 10 years face more occupational stress than those teachers with teaching experience of above than 10 years. There was no significant difference in the occupational stress between the rural and urban teachers.

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