A Probe into the Occupational Stress of the Teacher Educators of Self-financed B.Ed. Colleges

Abstract

Now-a-days stress has become an integral part of life; our teacher educators, the main spring of teacher education, are also feeling stress to meet up their professional challenges. The present study was carried out through descriptive survey method to understand the nature and extend of occupational stress prevalent among the teacher educators. To collect data “Teacher Stress Inventory (TSI)” was administered on a random sample of 300 teacher educators, chosen from self-financed B.Ed. colleges of South 24 Parganas in West Bengal. It was observed that the teacher educators on an average scored high in Time Management, Work Related Stress, Professional Distress, Discipline and Motivation, Professional Investment, Emotional Manifestation and Teachers Stress in totality, but low in Fatigue Manifestation, Cardio-vascular Manifestation, Gastro-Vascular Manifestation and Behavioural Manifestation factors of TSI. But in all of the cases the mean was above the “mild strength rating” (i.e. 1.9); so it was noticeable. From the result it might be concluded that the teacher educators were forced to experience high to noticeable amount of occupational stress and the plight was the same in case of both genders.