Stress among Teaching Community: an Alarming Signal (original) (raw)

2010

Abstract

Teaching has been identified as one of the most stressful occupations in many countries. Teaching related stress, commonly termed ‘teacher stress’, is defined as a teacher's experience of “unpleasant, negative emotions, such as anger, anxiety, tension, frustration, or depression, resulting from some aspect of their work as a teacher.” Like other forms of occupational stress, it can have serious implications for the healthy functioning of the individual as well as for the organization in which the individual serves. At a present level, teaching related stress can affect a teacher's health, well being, and performance. From an organizational perspective, it translates to unproductive employee behaviours such as alienation, apathy, and absenteeism. Hence, even after three decades of research efforts, the study of teachers stress, particularly its sources and its manifestations, continues to attract widespread interest and attention.

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