International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations ISSN 2348-7585 (Online) Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp: (1378-1383), Month: October 2019 - March 2020, Available at: www.researchpublish.com
A Study On Various Factors Causes Stress Among Private College Teachers In Coimbatore City Midhuna.S Research Scholar, Department Of Commerce, Sree Narayana Guru College, K.G.Chavadi,Coimbatore
Abstract: Stress is a common and unavoidable phenomenon in human life. Every individual has their own stress. There will be family life stress, occupational stress, social stress etc. Every job has its own stress factors. Nowadays in this modern scenario, teaching is considered as one of the most stressful job. Teaching in a private institution gives more stress to the teachers as it may not give a job security as a Government teacher. Moreover private college teachers has to satisfy not only the academic needs of the students but also the demanding needs of the management. In this paper, the various causes of stress among private college teachers in colleges in Coimbatore has been studied. This paper also attempts to identify the various stress management activities followed by the teachers for minimizing their stress. Keywords: Stress, Stress management, stress management techniques, causes of stress.
1. INTRODUCTION Teaching is considered as the most blessed though challenging profession. Teachers are dealing with students and plays a vital role in moulding future generation. Teaching profession involves dealing with not only academic growth but also emotional, psychological ,sociological balance of their students. They have to play a role of a parent, academic guide, mentor and a counsellor to their students. As teachers are highly involving with the human beings who are very sensitive in nature, they have to be more cautious. As already mentioned teaching is the most challenging profession and involves stress. As teachers have to play a multidimensional role, involves very high stress level. Teacher stress is considered as real phenomenon. Stress could simply be defined as an unpleasant emotion, which arises when people worry that they could not cope with excessive pressures or other types of demand placed upon them. Kyriacou and Sutcliffe had exhaustively defined teacher stress as a response to negative effect such as anger or depression by a teacher, usually accompanied by potentially pathogenic, physiological and biochemical changes resulting from aspects of the teacher‟s job. Nowadays teaching does not just dealing with students and their development. They have to fulfill the demanding needs of the management of the institutions they are working for. The „working with‟ concept has been changed to „working for‟ concept with the increase in the private institutions. This paper deals with the study of various factors causing the stress among private college teachers and the stress management techniques used by them.
2. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
To study the level of stress among private college teachers
To study the various reasons for stress among private college teachers
To study the various symptoms of stress among private college teachers.
To study the various techniques used for stress management.
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