THE IMPACT OF WORK RELATED STRESS ON HEALTH ISSUE OF PRIVATE SCHOOL TEACHERS IN INDIA

Stress is the force, pressure, or strain exerted on a material, object or person which
resists these forces and attempts to maintain its original state. It is the strain within the person
due to the pressure, uncontrollable situation extra workload, psychological barriers, emotional
factors and many other reasons. People generally come under pressure when they are not able
to or are inefficient to cope with the situation. Thus, stress is situation oriented and is more
likely in some people than others. It was found that women are more likely to experience
psychological stress whereas men experience physical strain. Consequences of stress may be
in the areas of Psychology (depression, anxiety, anger, moodiness, isolation, and irritability),
Physiology (low energy, headache, insomnia, nausea, constipation, aches or pains) and
Behaviour (being demotivated, aggressive, lost, and tearful). Stress is nothing but the reaction
of human body, both physical and mental, towards changes, situations and events in their lives.
These reactions of human body are the result of attitude and perception which they carry. This
paper is investigated the impact of work related stress on health issue of private school teachers
in tamilnadu. The descriptive research designs were used for this study. 300 teachers were
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approached as a sample size for the research. Descriptive analysis, ANOVA test, and Post- Hoc
test were applied to examine the sample, to indicate that which are the attributes those that
mostly impact the teachers stress and examine the linear association between the dependent
variable and independent variable. It is observed that the private school teachers work stress is
mostly influenced by the factors of excessive workloads, long hours and low pays, unrealistic
deadliness, meaningless tasks, unused job skills and infrequent breaks.