Mental health of women teachers working in secondary schools of mizoram

Abstract

Introduction: Mental health is now recognized universally as a shared problem with thought significances for the fitness and welfare of the people. But there is a small kindness paid to the delinquent for the distinct group of people, female teachers working in secondary schools of Mizoram. Objective: This paper is highlighting the status of mental health, work-family conflict and level of anxiety, depression, somatic symptoms and social dysfunction of the women teachers working in secondary schools of Mizoram. Methods: The research has followed the mixed-mode method with quantitative and qualitative approaches. Simple Random sampling procedure was used to select the sample. Five secondary schools of (3 urban and two rural) each district i.e. (5x8=40) 40 schools were selected for the study. Five female teachers who were available on the day of visit from each school i.e. 40x5=200 teachers were selected as the sample of the study. Out of 200 teachers, 100 are above 10 years of teaching experience and 100 are below 10 years of teaching experience. The Mental Health scale by S.P.Anada (2002) was used to collect the data for the above purpose. Results: The study reveals that the women teachers working in private secondary schools and teachers having less experience of Mizoram are mentally unhealthy. Government of Mizoram will take necessary steps for improving the mental health of private secondary school teachers and teachers having less experience. Conclusion: School Guidance and Counselling cell may help to solve mental, psychological and health-related problems of teachers and students. Mental health promotion related workshops, seminar, group discussions and conferences should be or-ganized at the interschool level for promotion of mental health teachers. The government should ask the management of private schools to provide a salary to the teachers at per with government teachers.