Education

ABSTRACT The study aims to analyze the mental health of secondary and higher secondary school teachers. Teachers are the most powerful agents who influence the behaviour of the students and therefore teachers should pos-sess emotional stability as well as healthy attitude towards life. Health of teacher, both physical and mental, adds to the efficiency of his/her work. Survey method has been used in the present study. Mental Health Inventory (MHI) was used for collecting the data. 130 secondary and higher secondary school teachers were chosen for the study. The data was analyzed using mean, Standard deviation, ‘t’- test and one way ANOVA. The study reveals that the Government school teachers ’ mental health and Higher Secondary school teachers ’ mental health is higher than their counterparts. Gender-wise analysis shows that female teachers ’ mental health is higher than the male teachers