Stress factors among women teachers in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu

Stress is a person's adaptive response to a stimulus that places excessive psychological or physical demands on that person. Major organizational stressors are task demands, physical demands, role demands and interpersonal demands. Life stressors include life change and life trauma. Stress has many consequences. Individual consequences can include behavioural, psychological and medical problems. On the organizational level, stress can affect performance and attitudes or cause withdrawal. The researcher has undertaken the study with a focus on the nature of stress faced by working teachers, its reasons and the outcome in general. The data was collected through random sampling method from 200 women teachers from arts and science colleges in Coimbatore district. The findings of the study showed that work place stress was due to lack of advancement and training at work place, cause of stress at home was due to financial problems and cause personal stress among the working women is they do not find enough time to spend with their family members and friends in day to day life cycle. The researcher suggest that physical exercises like mediation, regular exercise and yoga and seeking adequate support from co-workers, family, and friends can be adopted by the women to get relieved from their stress.