A STUDY OF TEACHER STRESS AMONG SCHOOL TEACHERS

The teachers are considered to be the most powerful environment for child development. Stress can be defined as the physiological and psychological reaction with which it occurs as a consequence of perception of imbalance between the level of demand placed upon individuals and their capabilities to meet those demands. Stress relates to the causes and consequences of less than optimum performance which is attributable to motivation. Teacher stress has a nationwide concern and relatively new area of empirical factors prepared by teachers as being troublesome or stressful have included students discipline, negative attitudes towards school, physical violence, is adequate preparation time, lack of clear role definition and heavy workloads. The present study aims to study the teachers stress among school teachers. The sample was selected using random sampling techniques. The sample included 85 males and 115 females schools teachers working in Vellore district. Rama’s teacher stress self-rating five-point scale developed and standardized by. Dr. Krishnan Raju (1994) because it is more appropriate to measure the teacher stress and the data obtained was subjected to statistical analysis (descriptive analysis and t-test). Findings suggest that there is no significant difference between teachers stress irrespective to gender, age, educational qualification, management and teaching experience towards school teachers