Psychological Well-being and Occupational Stress of Primary School teachers in Tinsukia Distrct, Assam.

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate psychological wellbeing and occupational stress of primary school teachers in Tinsukia District, Assam. The sample of the study comprised of 520 teachers (260 male and 260 female) which has been selected by using stratified random sampling technique.  Descriptive and inferential statistics such as Mean, SD, t test and product moment corelation coefficient were used to analysed the data. The findings revealed that female teachers experienced higher occupational stress, however, no statistically significant gender differences were found in psychological wellbeing of male and female teacher. A strong negative corelation (r=-0.77) was found between occupational stress and psychological wellbeing. The findings of the study emphasised the need for effective strategies to manage stress and enhance psychological wellbeing among teachers.