Comparison of Job Stress and job Satisfaction on Mental Health factors among Male school Teachers

Teachers are provided highest respect in the world for their sound knowledge, holy teaching and for their good moral character. The role depicted in Mahabharata of Guru Dronacharya for teaching the Lesson‘s to Pandava‘s for fighting the Wars is an best example for all parents in India. The teachers are gleaned from the hierarchy of their Gods: i.e. ‗Matrudevo Bhava, Pitrudevo Bhava, Acharyadevo Bhava‘. The mother of the child is considered to be the first Guru in Hindu mythology and a father is considered as second guru. The school teacher is considered as the third guru of child. It is rightly said in India i.e. ‗Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu, Gurudevo Maheshwarah‘. It means that the teacher is the creator, the sustainer and the ultimate liberator in the society. The teachers and the students used to recite Vedic mantras together and were considered as the essence of their proper education in India. These were like ―Sahanaavavatuu, Sahanaubhunaktu, Sahaviryam, Karavavahai, Tejasvinaava, Dhitamastu and Ma Vidvisavahai‖ These mantras were recited with the sole purpose that the God may protect us both; May God save us both; May we together do great deeds; May our learning be bright and may we help each other in making peace and prosperity in the world‘. This is not practiced in India now a days. Instead of these English prayers are given more importance. The teacher‘s image has changed from an ‗inner-directed‘ to that of a ‗stereotype‘ in the modern times of the world. Job satisfaction is an emotional affective response as a result of ‗estimation‘ of the degree to which some facts of job reality is congruent or incongruent with values of a teacher. It is therefore important to have a good understanding of an individual‘s total personality and value system in order to understand and describe one‘s job satisfaction. Job stress is considered of as a first level outcome of job and organization; it is a feeling of discomfort that is separate and distinct from second-level outcomes or consequences of job stress. The second-level outcomes may include varying levels of satisfaction, organizational commitment, motivation, and performance. The two major classes of variables in the job stress process are job stressors and job strains. A stressor has been typically defined as a condition or situation that requires an adaptive response from a person. The aim of the present research was to find out the job stress and job satisfaction among male teachers working in different types of schools of U.P.

schools each from government, missionaries and madrasas from the list of schools published by government of UP. Further four male teachers were selected randomly as subjects for the study from the above mentioned twenty schools each from government, missionary and madrasa. Age of the selected male subjects ranged between 25 to 40 years with average age of 32 years. The details of the subject being randomly selected is given below:

Government 20 4 80 Missionaries 20 4 80 Madrasa 20 4 80 Grand Total 240

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

To compare the mean scores of Job Satisfaction and Job Stress between male teachers of government, missionary and madrasa schools of U.P, one way ANOVA was deployedThe level of significance was set

The analysis of data presented in Table 1, reveals that there was no significant difference of job, Salary 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 greater than 0.05. This implies that there was no significant difference of job satisfaction and its components between male teachers of governmental, missionary and madrasa school.

From the Table 2, reveals that there was no significant difference, as p-value was greater than 0.05. It indicates the mean scores of overall Job stress between Governmental, missionary and madrasa school male Teachers had no significantly difference. Thus, null hypothesis that there will be no significant difference in mean scores of overall Job stress between government, missionary and madrasa school teachers was accepted at 0.05 level of significance.

The main purpose of the study was to find out the mean scores of job stress and job satisfaction among male and female teachers working in different types of schools of U.P. The study was delimited to government, missionary and madrasa school of U.P. The results of the study revealed that male 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 male teachers of missionary school significantly suffer from overall Job Stress, Overloadness, Role Conflict, Role Ambiguity and Frail Interpersonal Relationship. Many research studies have confirmed that job satisfaction is one of the important factors that contribute to a high level of teaching performance. Some researchers have pointed out that the low levels of job satisfaction may lead to lower productivity, associated apathy and loss of interest, as well as, the low level of organizational commitments. This affects the quality of education and student achievement levels. Hence Job satisfaction Podstawski et al., 2014; Radchenko, 2015; Nowak et al., 2016). The results of this present study are also supported by many other research findings (Kumari & Mishra 2009; Baglioni 2001; Cooper & Palmer 2001; and Rout & Rout, 1996). However, the research finding of Wezermes is contrary and not identical to the findings of the present study with regard to overall job satisfaction. He concluded that there are no significant differences in overall job satisfaction between physical education teachers and teachers of other disciplines in Jordan.

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