Teacher effectiveness of secondary school teachers in relation to their mental health, stress and job satisfaction

Kumara, S. K. (2017) Teacher effectiveness of secondary school teachers in relation to their mental health, stress and job satisfaction. Asian Journal of Development Matters, 11 (2). pp. 179-187. ISSN 0976-4674

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Abstract

Teacher effectiveness is governed by levels of self efficiency that is the belief teachers have about their teaching capabilities. Effective teachers possesses well balanced personalities, manage their stress level and demonstrate positive attitudes towards the profession and shows more emotional maturity, satisfaction in life, higher level of intelligence and creativity than ineffective teachers. The present study aimed at investigating the impact of mental health, stress and job satisfaction on teacher effectiveness of secondary school teachers in Mysore district. An attempt was also made to know whether gender, locality and type of school had any significant impact on teacher effectiveness and also on mental health, stress and job satisfaction. A sample of 320 teachers working in government and private secondary schools were selected using random stratified sampling technique in urban and rural areas respectively. The teacher effectiveness scale of Kulsum (2000), Mental Health Inventory prepared by Jagadish and Srivastava (1983), Occupational Stress Index designed Srivastava and Singh (1981) and the Job Satisfaction Scale of Meera Dixit (1993) were used to collect the data. In this study the impact of the various variables were analyzed using means, SD analysis of variance (ANOVA) and t-test as part of statistical techniques. The study revealed that there is no significant impact of mental health and stress on teacher effectiveness. Nevertheless, the present study showed that there is significant impact of job satisfaction on teacher effectiveness.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: A Arts and Humanities > Education
Divisions: Department of > Education
Depositing User: C Swapna Library Assistant
Date Deposited: 29 May 2019 09:54
Last Modified: 29 May 2019 09:54
URI: http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/629

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