0ccupational Stress and Women Teachers

Stress is a multidimensional and a complex phenomenon, which is influenced by personal, situational and structural factors. Especially stress in teaching is a multi level phenomenon that results in unpleasant negative emotions, such as anger, frustration, depression etc. Prolonged occupational stress in teaching has been found to result in both mental and physical ill health, ultimately having deleterious effect on teacher's professional efficiency. Stress influences all people including women teachers at one time or the other. The aim of this study was to reveal that how the occupational stress among the women teachers get affected with reference to types of school and some personal variable. This study could be used to create awareness among the schools to prevent loosing effective teachers and it would be helpful to follow an early intervention program on the stress management for their teachers.