European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Abstract

Introduction: Teacher stress is defined as experiences in teachers of unpleasant, negative emotions, such as anger, frustration, anxiety, depression and nervousness, resulting from some aspect of their work as teachers. Objective was to assess the level of occupational stress and its associated factors among teachers of two private schools from the metropolitan city of Maharashtra.
Method: A cross sectional study was conducted on 96 school teachers of two Private schools of Metropolitan city. Two scales namely Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) and General Health Questionnaire-12 items (GHQ-12) to measure social support and occupational stress respectively. Both these scales have been used as stress measurement tools.
Results: Around half of teachers were in the age group of 31 to 45 years (50.08%) and mean age was 38.5 (SD + 9.25). Around 12.5% of the teachers had inadequate social support and about 54.17% teachers had stress. Bivariate analysis showed accomplishment pressure and lack of social support to teachers adds to their stress levels (p< 0.05). Similar finding were seen by multivariate analysis i.e. higher expectation of performance (OR: 2.59) and lack of social support (OR: 2.87) had higher odds of having stress.
Conclusion: Competent work accomplishments and adequate social support to school teachers were considered as protective factor against occupation stress