Occupational stress of state aided college teachers in relation to demographic attributes in north 24 parganas, West Bengal

The aim of the present study was to assess the level of occupational stress of State Aided College Teachers in relation to their gender, age, income and job satisfaction level. The researcher used Descriptive type survey method. The researcher took 252 SACT teachers as sample by adopting purposive sampling from 5 general degree colleges of North 24 Parganas District, West Bengal. The researcher used self-develop Job Satisfaction Scale and standardized Occupational Stress Index of A.K. Srivastava and A.R. Singhas tools of data collection for SACT Teachers. Both descriptive and inferential statistics was used by the researcher for data analysis. The result revealed that the stress of State Aided College Teachers of North 24 Parganas district varied in relation to their gender, age, income. The utmost finding of this study was that a negative relationship exists between the level of job satisfaction and occupational stress of SACT teachers of North 24 Parganas. It showed that increase of occupational stress of State Aided College Teachers leads to decrease of their job satisfaction level. Occupational stress arises among teachers due to different organizational factors like excessive work pressure, poor inter-personal relationship, unhealthy working environment etc. which adversely effect their job satisfaction level. To maintain qualitative academic excellence efforts should be made to control occupational stress of all teachers. The success of the higher educational institutions and students’ performance is depends on the functions of all type of teachers.