Today, colleges and universities are facing major changes as they navigate the 21st century. Rapid scientific growth, technological advancements and media revolution have hiked competitive environment in the global market place resulted burst out of mushroom type higher education institutions (HEI's) which have grossly deteriorated the whole education system in India. There is growing evidence that these HEI's haven't any concern to teachers’ working conditions, pay scale, satisfaction and quality as a whole. They are reducing their permanent workforce converting them to a short term contracts or ‘out-sourcing.’ These emerging trends are increasing a ‘workaholic’ culture which erodes the level of teachers’ life satisfaction and directly damages their physical and mental health. This paper discusses about the objectives: i)-to study the relationship of college teachers’ life satisfaction with regards to their spiritual intelligence; ii)-to find out the impact of nature of job, teaching experience and marital status upon their life satisfaction. Survey research method has been used in the study and in order to conduct a survey, the researcher has selected 231 college teachers as a sample through Stratified Random Sampling. Further, he employed self-constructed Spiritual Intelligence Scale (SIS) & Life Satisfaction Scale (LSS) for data collection and ANOVA, t-Test and Pearson Correlation for analyzing the data. The main findings of the study are: a). there is significant positive correlation between life satisfaction and spiritual intelligence; b). nature of job and teaching experience have significant impact on their life satisfaction while marital status has no any significant impact on their life satisfaction.
College Teachers, Life Satisfaction, Spiritual Intelligence, Nature of Job, Teaching Experience, Marital Status
