Study of Occupational Stress Between Government School Teachers and Private School Teachers

Abstract

In the present time, every human being has a different amount of stress, some have personal, and some have occupational. The present study aimed to discover the difference between occupational stress of government school teachers and private school teachers and find out the level of occupational stress in government school teachers and private school teachers. For study the cross-sectional method was used, forty female school teachers were selected randomly from various inter colleges of Bareilly city. The number of government school teachers and private school teachers kept the same. For measurement of occupational stress, the Hindi version of the occupational stress index by Srivastava and Singh (1984) was administered to all forty teachers. After the analysis, the result showed a moderate level of occupational stress in both groups and no significant difference in occupational stress between government school teachers and private school teachers. Thus, the study found the same level of occupational stress in government school teachers and private school teachers.