Comparison of job Satisfaction and job Stress on Mental health factors among female school Teachers

The teachers are called as ‗Guru‘s or ‗Acharya‘s and are given the top most position in the Society in India. In earlier times, teachers were not to worry about their necessities of life in the olden days. They were free to pursue their quest for knowledge and research. The teachers were the best role model for the students in every aspect of life. The teachers were totally responsible for the complete process of education. They had full freedom in planning the curriculum, methods of instruction and methods of examination and evaluation. The students and the society used to ‗look up‘ at the ‗Guru‘s‘ for their guidance in all educational matters for their children. It has been felt by large number of people in society that most of the teachers of the present day have no interest in their profession and they continue in their profession only as mechanical wage earners. The facilities and incentive offered in this profession are so little and small that many of the talented persons do not think of becoming teachers but would like to take jobs police. The Lack of recognition of the teachers in society is one of major factors that keep the most talented person out of teaching profession. They are not being given the equal respect as a medical doctor, a lawyer or an IAS/IPS officer gets in the society. The important role of a teacher is hardly recognized in society. But it has become a fashion to observe the teacher‘s day on 5thSeptember on each year. The teachers of today suffer from neglect, indifference and feeling of insecurity. The society always expects a lot from a teacher who has so little power and alarmingly meager facilities. The net result appears to be a widespread dissatisfaction in the teaching profession as a whole. The Job satisfaction is related to one‘s personal adjustment in teaching students in the class as per their intelligent quotient. The researchers have studied the construct of job satisfaction in great detail. Several theoretical frameworks on job satisfaction have emerged from the various research studies conducted with multiple types of educational work. The inner desire, inner urge and strong intrinsic motivation is essential to be best teacher for the continuing growth of educational systems around the world. The professional knowledge and skills, competencies, educational resources as well as strategies play important role in determining educational success of a teacher. teacher irrespective of his personality. The Job Stress is caused by bad conditions in the workplace which affect negatively. The Job Stress also affects overall well-being of body and mind. The Job Stress at work place is a common phenomenon in modern lifestyles. The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of job stress and job satisfaction on mental health factors among female teachers working in different types of schools of U.P.

For this study, total forty schools were randomly selected i.e., twenty schools each from government and missionaries from the list of schools published by government of UP. Further four female teachers were selected randomly as subjects for the study from the above-mentioned schools. The details of the subjects being selected is as:

Government 20 4 80 Missionaries 20 4 80 Grand Total 160

The age of the selected subjects i.e. female ranged between 25 to 40 years with average age of 32 years.

In order to measure Job Satisfaction and Job Stress of female teachers of U.P., the following standardized tests were selected as tools to measure the criterion variables of the study: - 1. Job satisfaction scale of Dr. (Mrs.) Meera Dixit. 2. Indore teachers Job stressors scale of Dr. (Mrs.) Meena Buddhisagar Rathod and Dr. Madhulika Verma.

The Independent ―t‖ test was employed to compare the means of Job Satisfaction, Mental health and Job Stress between female teachers‘ of government and missionary schools of U.P. In order to find out of variances was used. The level of significance was set at 0.05.

RESULTS & FINDINGS

Promotional avenues and service conditions, Physical Facilities, Institutional plan and policies, Satisfaction with authorities, satisfaction with social status and family welfare, Rapport with students and Relationship with co-workers at 0.05 level of significance as the obtained p-value is less than 0.05. This implies that homogeneity of variance exists between female teachers of Governmental and missionary Teachers and lower value of independent t-test is optimally valid as homogeneity of variance is violated. Further, it is evident from the table that the t-value of Overall Job Satisfaction is -34.832 which is significant as p-value is 0.00 which is less than 0.05. It indicates the mean scores of Overall Job Satisfaction between governmental and missionary teachers differ significantly. Thus, null hypothesis i.e., there is no significant difference in mean scores of Overall Job Satisfaction between Government and missionary teachers is failed to reject at 0.05 level of significance.

The analysis of data presented in Table 2 revealed that Levene's Test for Equality of Variances is significant in Overloadness, Role conflict, Powerlessness, Role Ambiguity, Motivelessness, Frail Interpersonal Relationship and overall job stress at 0.05 level of significance as the obtained p-value is less than 0.05. This implies that homogeneity of variance exists between governmental and missionary school female teachers, and lower value of significant as p-value is 0.00 which is less than 0.05. It indicates the mean scores of overall Job stress between Physical Education and Science Teachers differ significantly. Thus, null hypothesis that there will be no significant difference in mean scores of overall Job stress between governmental and missionary school teachers is failed to reject at 0.05 level of significance.

CONCLUSION

The main purpose of the study was to find out the job stress and job satisfaction status among female teachers working in different types of schools of U.P. The results of the study revealed that female teachers of government school were found significantly better in overall Job satisfaction, Intrinsic aspect of the job, Salary, Promotional Avenues, Service Conditions, Physical Facilities, Institutional Plan and Policies and Satisfaction with authorities than the over type of school teachers. It was further revealed that female teachers of missionary school significantly suffer from overall Job Stress, Overloadness, Role Conflict, Role Ambiguity and Frail Interpersonal Relationship. It was also revealed that there was significant difference in the mean scores of job stress and job satisfaction between female teachers of government and missionary school.

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Lecturer, Department of Education, Tilak Mahavidyalaya, Auraiya, U.P.