Author(s): Gowher Ahmad Paul and Dr. Ramneek Jain

Abstract:
In order to assess the job stress of school teachers the investigator has used Teachers‟ Occupational Stress Scale (TOSS) was developed. It is a thirty items likert type scale based on five dimension (work load, students‟ misbehavior, lack of professional recognition, lack of classroom resources and poor colleague relations) The total score for the TOSS will be the scores on all the dimensions. The scores of the scale are to be interpreted like higher the score implies higher the level of occupational stress. With the help of the questionnaire related to the level of occupational stress and social adjustment (socio-psychological variables) necessary data was collected. Data regarding selected socio-psychological variables from 200 male and female physical education teachers working in government and public schools was collected by the scholar himself with the help of other subject teachers, coaches and colleagues. In order to assess the level of occupational stress and the level of social adjustment, the tests were conducted on 50 male physical education teachers working in government schools, 50 female physical education teachers working in government schools, 50 male physical education teachers working in public schools and 50 female physical education teachers working in Public schools in Jammu and Kashmir. The data was analyzed by applying Descriptive statistics i.e. mean, standard deviation, standard error and range in order to assess the level of occupational stress and the level of social adjustment of physical education teachers working in government and public schools of Jammu 44 and Kashmir. To compare the level of occupational stress and the level of social adjustment among physical education teachers working in government and public schools of Jammu and Kashmir, Independent „t‟ statistical test and One way analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and LSD were applied. The level of significance was set at 0.05. & the data was analyzed by Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS version 20.0).

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