DEMOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES AND OCCUPATIONAL STRESS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

Abstract

The present study examined the relationships of a set of independent variables (gender, qualification, teaching experience, salary, subjects taught and marital status) with occupational stress among secondary school teachers. The population in this study consists of 608 teachers from 42 schools of Uttar Pradesh (India). The Teachers Occupational Stress Scale was used for data collection, while t-test and F-test are used for statistical analysis. According to the results of the analysis, nearly half of the secondary school teachers experience less stress towards their job and males display more occupational stress towards job than the females. Moreover, the trained graduate teachers are found to have higher occupational stress than post-graduate and untrained teachers. Teachers with an experience of 6-10 years face occupational stress the most, and 0-5 years the least; while those falling in the remaining two groups slide in between these two. Findings also reveal no significant differences between monthly salary, subjects taught, marital status and occupational stress of secondary school teachers.