Coping Strategies as predictors of Organizational Role Stress among Trained Graduate Teachers working in Government schools of Himachal Pradesh

Abstract

This research was conducted on 1000 TGTs to examine the predicting effect of coping strategies on organizational role stress. Findings revealed that TGTs using approach as dominant mode of coping style differed significantly from their counterparts using avoidance coping in inter role distance, role stagnation, role expectation conflict, personal inadequacy and resource inadequacy dimensions of ORS. Similarly, TGTs using avoidance as a dominant mode of coping significantly differed from their counterparts using approach coping in role erosion and self role distance and role ambiguity dimensions of ORS. There is negative and significant correlation between approach mode coping and organizational role stress and its all components & similarly there is a positive and significant correlation between avoidance mode of coping and organizational role stress and its all components. Regression analyses, findings revealed that approach mode of coping and avoidance mode of coping explaining 25.1% variation in IRD, 14.8% variation in RS, 17.6% variation in REC, 28.5% variation in RE, 15.3% percent variation in RO, 27.4% variation in RI, 19.2% variation in PI, 23.9% variation in SRD, 24.4% variation in RA, 25.1% variation in RIn dimensions of ORS and 41.8 variation in total ORS.