Life Satisfaction of Professional College Teachers in Relation to their Stress Level

Life satisfaction has been referred to as a person's cognitive judgment of life as a whole. It is defined as "a cognitive, judgmental process which depends upon a comparison of one's circumstances with what is thought to be an appropriate standard". In adults, research has demonstrated that positive and negative major life events (e.g, getting married or becoming unemployed) have an effect on life satisfaction In addition to major life events, daily events such as daily hassles, or chrome everyday stressors, contribute to how an individual rates his or her satisfaction with life. Stress is defined as a person's psychological or physiological response to environmental factors, in which stress is seen as both the stimulus (stressor) and the response (strain). Based on this perspective, stress often happens when the demands of a particular experience is about to exceed the resources available, thus, leading to a change in the person's psychological and physiological condition in order to deal with the experience. So, a stressful situation occurs when a person exert an impact on and responds to his/her environment. Stress has a negative impact on wellbeing and seems to be highly related with life satisfaction. Studies have supported that lower levels of life satisfaction have been related to high stress. The present study aims to examine the relationship of life satisfaction with stress in college teachers.For this purpose,data of 50 college teachers servingg in different professional courses has been taken. The scale used for investigation is: Life Satisfaction Scale by Alam and Snvastava (2001) to measure life satisfaction areas and "Anxiety, Depression and Stress Scale" by Singh et al. (2011) to measure stress level. The obtained data was subjected to statistical analysis and main findings and implications have been discussed.