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- Title
Stress and spirituality among school teachers.
- Authors
Behera, Sudarsan; Dash, Manaswini
- Abstract
Nowadays teaching profession is perceived by the teachers as a very stressful occupation as they have to do a variety of works. The present study has been designed to study stress and spirituality among school teachers in relation to several demographic variables such as gender, age, locality of work and residence, length of work experience, and type of school in which they are working. For this purpose a purposive sample of 240 school teachers with equal number of teachers from three different types of schools, i.e., elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools of Odisha were administered the Indore Teacher Job Stressor Scale (Rathod&Varma, 2005) and the Spirituality transcendence Scale (Reker & Prabhu, 1989). One-way Analyses of Variances revealed significant differences in total amount of stress experienced as well as spirituality as a function of locality and type of school. It is suggested that in the face of stress teachers are using spirituality as a coping mechanism which in turn, reduces their stresslevel. The results are discussed in socio-educational context of Odisha.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGY of teachers; RELIGIOUS life of teachers; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; SPIRITUALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress
- Publication
Indian Journal of Health & Wellbeing, 2015, Vol 6, Issue 3, p305
- ISSN
2229-5356
- Publication type
Article