A Study of Occupational Stress with its Coping Mechanism among the Teaching Community of RPCAU, Pusa

Author: Dipankar Saikia*, Ashok K. Singh, Nirala Kumar and Bidyut P. Gogoi

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Abstract

The study examined the extent of occupational stress along with outcome of occupational stress with its coping mechanism of teachers working at RPCAU, Pusa. For the purpose one hundred and sixty teachers from nine constituent colleges were selected, by using multistage purposive sampling technique and administered with an Occupational Stress Index. In order to assess the outcome of occupational stress and coping mechanism among the teachers, the checklist used by Kalpana (2018) was adopted. The statistical techniques employed were frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation (SD) and the obtained results were analyzed accordingly. The results revealed that majority (39.37%) of teachers were working with medium level of occupational stress. Also, it is evident from the findings that majority (43.80%) of the Assistant Professor were found to had high level of occupational stress while majority of Associate Professors and Professor had low level of occupational stress. The result fu

Keywords

Occupational Stress, Teacher, Outcome and Coping Mechanism.