*Research Scholar, Department of Education, M.D.U., Rohtak, Haryana, India.
**Assistant Professor, Kurukshetra University P.G. Regional Centre, Jind, Haryana, India.
Online published on 7 December, 2012.
This paper deals with the comparative study of occupational stress of secondary school teachers in relation to their demographic variables i.e. gender, type of school and locality. Teaching is regarded as a very stressful occupation. Increasing consciousness for education due to increasing competitions among students for achieving their goals added more pressure and stress on teachers. It is an established fact that the performance of teacher mainly depends upon his psychological state of mind. As occupational stress affects the physical and psychological well being of the teacher; it is definitely influences his efficiency and performance. The objectives were to compare the occupational stress of male and female secondary school teachers, to compare the occupational stress of the teachers working in government and private secondary schools, to compare the occupational stress of the teachers belonging to urban and rural secondary schools. Keeping in mind the above objectives, this study was conducted. The data was collected from 128 secondary school teachers at Rohtak District in Haryana through survey method by using standardized tool Occupational Stress Index by A.K. Shrivastva. In order to make comparisons between Male/Female, Govt./Private, Urban/Rural teachers, various descriptive and inferential statistical techniques like Means, Std. Deviation, t-test were employed. Results showed that there was no significant difference in the occupational stress of secondary school teachers on gender, type of school and locality basis.
