Impediments encountered by Teachers at the tertiary level of Education-A brief survey
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31305/rrjss.2025.v05.n01.024Keywords:
College Teachers, occupational stress, self- evaluation, demographic variablesAbstract
Teachers face enumerable difficulties that are often overlooked. Several constrictions and dire conditions are shouldered by teachers. Such extreme factors cause psychosomatic discomforts. This eventually become fatal for the well-being of teachers. Teachers face professional burnout that has direct impact on the mental and physical health of teachers (Schwab and Iwanicki, 1982). Extreme distress and psychological weariness lead to apathy towards the profession among teachers (Niles and Anderson, 1993). Teaching is one profession where head, heart and soul play vital role. Teachers are looked up to as care givers and empathisers. Adversities of any kind pertaining to their profession leads to gradual disengagement. The primal focus of this article is to study stress faced by teachers in relation to their job/occupation. There are various concomitant factors that contribute to the stress, like workload, remuneration and perquisites, relation with the management, relation with the students. Besides, there are certain demographic factors that also play key roles and are found to affect occupational stress. Research Design: A descriptive survey research design was adopted to conduct the study. Hypotheses: Null hypotheses were constructed basing on the objectives. Sample and sample size and data collection: Data was collected from teachers hailing from the teachers working at the tertiary level of education where the sample size was one hundred and twenty (n=120). Tools: Standardised questionnaires were administered on the participants. Statistics: As per requirement inferential and descriptive statistics were applied. Conclusion: The result showed significant differences and correlation among variables undertaken in the study.
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