ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 8

Job-satisfaction of secondary school teachers in relation to their emotional maturity

  • Author:
  • Dinesh Kumar, Harpreet Singh
  • Total Page Count: 15
  • Page Number: 187 to 201

Ch. Devi Lal College of Education, Jagadhri, Haryana, India

Online published on 4 September, 2013.

Abstract

Job-satisfaction is of great significance for efficient functioning of any organization. Satisfied workers are the great asset of any organization and satisfaction leads their attitudes towards profession. Emotional Maturity is that characteristics of emotional behavior that is generally attained by an adult after the expiry of his adolescence period. Present study focuses on the study of occupational aspiration of visually impaired students in relation to their achievement motivation. It was hypothesized that there exists no significant relationship between job-satisfaction and emotional maturity of secondary school teachers and there exist no significant differences between job-satisfaction and emotional maturity of male and female secondary school teachers.

Sample of the present study comprised of 100 teachers (50 male and 50 female) working in secondary schools of district Yamuna Nagar selected through simple random sampling technique. Job-satisfaction and Emotional maturity of secondary school teachers were measured. There is significant relationship between job-satisfaction and emotional maturity of secondary school teachers. Further, the more emotionally mature secondary school teachers were found to be satisfied with their job. There is no significance difference between mean job-satisfaction and emotional maturity scores of male and female secondary school teachers.

Keywords

Job-satisfaction, secondary school teachers, emotional maturity