JOB STRESS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN RELATION TO THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARDS TEACHING PROFESSION

Teaching is an application of knowledge, skills and attributes designed to provide unique service to meet the educational needs of the students. With changing current situations in teaching field, teachers are experiencing job stress. The study aimed at finding out the relationship between job stress and attitude towards teaching profession among secondary school teachers on the basis of gender and types of school board. Methodology used was descriptive type (Survey). Job stress and Attitude towards teaching profession scale was constructed by the researcher. The sample size consists of 610 secondary school teachers. Data was descriptively and inferentially analysed. For the analysis Pearson’s coefficient correlation test was used to find out relationship between job stress and attitude towards teaching profession. It revealed that there is no relationship between Job stress and Attitude towards teaching profession on the basis of gender and types of school board