Effect of occupational stress on jobsatisfaction and personal values among higher secondary school teachers

Abstract

The study entitled quotEffect of Occupational Stress on Job Satisfaction newlineand Personal Values among Higher Secondary School Teachersquot belongs to newlinethe area of Education. Occupational stress in the human service professions, particularly in newlineteachers, has been a focus of study in the last two decades. It is said that newlineteaching is one of the most significant and noblest professions in the world. But newlineit is both demanding as well as challenging. As a profession, it involves newlinecomplex work environment, leading to too much stress. It is not an erratum to newlinestate that teachers are rarely provided with the resources they need to meet the newlinehigh demands and expectations placed on them. Moreover, the problems of newlinesociety in general and education system in particular are aggravating factors newlinefor creating stress among teachers. It is observed that under the same roof, newlinedifferent categories of teachers with different service conditions and different newlinepay structures work together. It is but natural that their teaching effectiveness, newlinemotivation and job satisfaction will vary due to these varied conditions. Over the newlineyears, the problem of teachers stress has received increasing recognition (Bog, newline1990; Borg and Falzon, 1993). Quantitative overload arising out of conditions to newlinework under time pressure has been related to high levels of strain, anxiety and newlinedepression, as well as low level of performance (Cooper and Roden, 1985; newlineKushmir and Melamed, 1991; Westman and Eden, 1992). It has been a common newlinefinding that educators experience higher levels of stress than other professional newlinegroups (De Jesus and Conboy, 2001). newline