Occupational stress and mental health of private and government school teachers among Sabarkantha district

Abstract

The prime aim of the study was to identify, compare and finding the occupational stress and mental health in teachers pursuing in private and government school male and female teachers. Total 200 teachers were randomly selected from various private institutes school and some government school of Sabarkantha district of Gujarat offering, out of which 100 were from private school teachers and 100 were from government school teachers. The sample was equally divided in regard to gender also. Occupational stress was measured with the help of occupational stress scale Inventory developed by Dr. Jagdish. The inventory measures the state of mental pleasure, overall well-being and lacking of psycho-physiological complaints. and second test was The Teacher’s Occupational Stress Scale (JSRA) develop by Sajid Jamal and Abdul Raheem. Work load, (ii) Student Misbehaviour, (iii) Lack of Professional Recognition, (iv) Lack of classroom resources, mean scores were computed and ‘t’ test was applied to find out the differences between the groups. The results reveal that the government school teachers are more occupational stress than private school teachers and differences between the groups find statistically significant at 0.01 level (t=6.25). Simultaneously the male of government school teachers reported in compare to private school teachers (t=3.79, p<0.01) and furthermore the female of private school teachers are well occupational stress and mental health than the female of government school female teachers (t=5.94, p<0.01).