Psychological Well-being of Higher Secondary Teachers

Abstract

The psychological wellbeing of teachers is described as the judgment and satisfaction of an individual with his/her happiness, physical and mental health and profession. In general, the psychological wellbeing of teachers goes beyond the simple absence of setbacks and stressors at work and concerns healthy and functional teachers. In simple terms, psychological wellbeing refers to the capability of teachers to strike a positive and dynamic balance between their resources and professional challenges. In respect of the present study, the Investigator adopted survey method of research to study the psychological wellbeing higher secondary teachers. The higher secondary teachers working in high and higher secondary schools in Karur District of Tamil Nadu State, India were the population of the present study. The sample for the present study consisted of 320 higher secondary teachers (both men and women) selected by means of stratified random sampling technique. The stratification was made on the basis of gender, subject and teaching experience of teacher and nature, locality and type of school. Psychological Wellbeing Scale standardized by Madhuchandra (2016) was the tool used to measure the psychological wellbeing of higher secondary teachers. For analyzing the data, the Investigators used Mean and‘t’-test. The findings of the present study revealed that there was significant influence of gender of teacher, locality and type of school on the psychological wellbeing of higher secondary teachers. On the contrary, teaching experience of higher secondary teachers did not seem to have any significant influence on the psychological wellbeing of them. Further, the findings confirmed that nature of school did not have exerted any significant influence on the psychological wellbeing of higher secondary teachers.