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Occupational Stress as a Function of Type of School and Gender


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1 School of Studies in Psychology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, India
2 Department to Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, India
     

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WHO defined as occupational stress is the response people may have when presented with work demands and pressures that are not matched to their knowledge and abilities and which challenge their ability to cope. Several studies reported that occupational stress influenced by certain psychological, organizational and demo-graphical factors in western context (Jeyaraj, 2013; Morrison, 2005; Berhem et al., 2004; Lewis, 1999). On the other hand in Indian context studies are lacking. The aim of current empirical research work is to examine that whether or not type of school, and gender work independently or interaction with each other are capable of generating variance in occupational stress in case of school teacher. Employing a (2)2 ex-post facto, non-experimental factorial design (fixed model) the two levels of type of school, i.e., residential and non-residential, the two levels of gender, viz. male and female were manipulated in the study. Employing the incidental cum random sampling technique, finally 120 teachers (60 males & 60 females) within the age range of 30 to 45 years were drawn randomly from different school run by Govt. of India at Chhattisgarh state to serve as subjects in the current research work. All the two independent variables were found to be potential enough in generating variance in occupational stress. Interaction was found significant for almost four components of occupational stress. Theoretical interpretations have been given.

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Authors

Kehkashan Hashmi
School of Studies in Psychology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, India
Basheer Hasan
School of Studies in Psychology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, India
Khan Abraruzzaman Khan
Department to Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, India

Abstract


WHO defined as occupational stress is the response people may have when presented with work demands and pressures that are not matched to their knowledge and abilities and which challenge their ability to cope. Several studies reported that occupational stress influenced by certain psychological, organizational and demo-graphical factors in western context (Jeyaraj, 2013; Morrison, 2005; Berhem et al., 2004; Lewis, 1999). On the other hand in Indian context studies are lacking. The aim of current empirical research work is to examine that whether or not type of school, and gender work independently or interaction with each other are capable of generating variance in occupational stress in case of school teacher. Employing a (2)2 ex-post facto, non-experimental factorial design (fixed model) the two levels of type of school, i.e., residential and non-residential, the two levels of gender, viz. male and female were manipulated in the study. Employing the incidental cum random sampling technique, finally 120 teachers (60 males & 60 females) within the age range of 30 to 45 years were drawn randomly from different school run by Govt. of India at Chhattisgarh state to serve as subjects in the current research work. All the two independent variables were found to be potential enough in generating variance in occupational stress. Interaction was found significant for almost four components of occupational stress. Theoretical interpretations have been given.

Keywords


Occupational Stress, Type of School and Gender.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15614/ijpp%2F2017%2Fv8i1%2F147141