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Introduction
Educationplaysveryvitalroleinrealizingthe
hopes and aspirations of the society. In educational
process, the teacher occupies a very important place.
A teacher is the medium through which objectives and
plan can be actualized. For this teacher must have
sound mental and physical health. But due to rapid
development of technology, rich information system,
explosion of knowledge has brought a corresponding
change in the life and work of people. India in twenty
firstcenturyisquitedifferentfromIndiaof1947interms
of social, economic, political and moral values. India
has reached at the threshold of space and made a mark
informationageduetoindustrializationandelectronic
revolution, the newdiseases which is hitting the news-
papers is the stress.
Thus the modern world which is said to be
the world of achievement is also world of stress. One
can find stress every where, whether it is within in
family, business organization, enterprise or any other
social and economic activity. Right from the time of
birthtillthelastbreathdown,andindividualisexposed
to various stressful situations. Thus it is not surprising
that in their issue has been rising with advancement of
presentcentury,whichhasbeencalled 'AgeofAnxiety,
conflict and stress'
Intheageofmodernization,urbanizationand
globalization, tension, anxiety, stress and neurosis
have became synonyms with the life today. Nowadays
most of the work is done by machines. Thus leaving
human being with different diseases, consequently the
humanbeingdonothavesoundmind.Generally,people
feelfreshafterhavingslept forsevenhours,butpeople
complain for not having a sound sleep. It reflects that
there is something which disturbs their sleep and this
only happen if a person does not have sound mind and
physical health.
To keep oneself physical and mental healthy,
people join club or become the members of different
recreational classes. People do use their own cher-
ished techniques like yoga, meditation, morning walk
etc. But these maynot be very effective, ifone is under
a great stress. So stress is a common phenomenon in
everyday life. All the individuals face stress to some
Research Paper - Education
Aug- Oct , 2013
AStudy of Stress and Coping Behavior of Teachers in
relationtoEmotionalIntelligenceandPersonality
Traits.
* Dr.Anita Rani
*HOD,MajorBihariLal ,MemorialCollegeofEducation,BilaspurChowk(Gurgaon)
degree in one or another form throughout the life. Our
educational institutions are also full of stressors of
variouskind.Theteachersfellvariouskindofpressure
from the society. There exist stress between student
and teachers, stress between teachers association,
and had of educational institutions, stress between
individuals and family life etc. In reality, stress is
prevasive in all human experience in our educational
institutions. Working in school was formely a highly
exteemed.
Theobjectivesofstudy:
(i) to compare the stress and coping behavior of
male and female teachers
(ii) compare the stress and coping behavior of teach
ers belonging to rural-urban areas
(iii) to compare the stress and coping behavior of
teachers working in Govt. and Private Schools
(iv) to study the relationship between stress and emo
tional intelligence of teachers
(v) to study the relationship between coping behav
ior and emotional intelligence of teachers
(vi) to compare the stress and coping behavior of
teachers with different level of emotional intelli
gence
(vii) to study the relationship between stress and per
sonality traits of teachers
(vii) to study the relationship between coping behav
ior and personality traits of teachers
(ix) to compare the stress and coping behavior of
introvert and extrovert teachers.
Hypotheses
(i) there is no significance difference in stress of
male and female teachers
(ii) there is no significance difference in stress of
teachers belonging to rural and urban teachers
(iii) there is no significance difference in stress of
teachers working in Government and Private
Schools.
(iv) there is no significance difference in coping be
havior of male and female teachers
(v) there is no significance difference in coping be
havior of teachers belonging to rural and urban
area
(vi) there is no significance difference in coping be

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havior of teachers working in Govt. and Private
Schools
(vii) there is no significance difference in stress of
teacherswithhighandlowemotionalintelligence
(ix) there exist significant relationship between cop
ing behavior and emotional intelligence of teach
ers
(x) thereexistssignificantrelationshipbetweenstress
and personality traits of teachers
(xi) there exist significant relationship between cop
ing behavior and personality traits of teachers
(xii) thereisno significantdifferenceinstress ofextro
vert and introvert teachers.
SampleAndToolsUsed
Thesampleconsistedof672secondaryschool
teachers which were selected randomly from four dis-
trictviz.Jhajjar,Rewari,GurgoanandMewatofHaryana
state. The data was collected by using
(i) Teacher's stress Inventory" by Harendra Singh
and J.P. Srivastava
(ii) 'CopingResponse Inventory'Adult FormbyR.H.
Moos
(iii) "EmotionalIntelligenceTest'byN.K.Chadhaand
Dalip Singh
(iv) 'Introversion-Extroversion' by RekhaAgnihotri
and P.F. Aziz. Data was analysed by using mean,
S.D. 't' and Correlation techniques.
FindindsofTheStudy
The major findings of the study revealed that
3%teachersbelongtoveryhighlevelofstress,whereas
14%teachersbelongtohighlevelofstress.67%teach-
ers have average, 12% teachers belong to low level of
stress and the remaining 4% teachers belong to very
low level of stress.
(ii) Thereissignificantdifferenceinstressofmaleand
female teachers. The female teachers are more
stressed as compared to male teachers.
(iii) There is significant difference in stress of teachers
belong to Govt. and Private Schools
(iv) There is significant difference in stress of teachers
belong to rural and urban areas
(v) Themaleandfemaleteachersdifferinusingcoping
responses to cope with stress
(vi) the coping behavior of teachers is not affected by
locality
(vii) there is significant and negative correlation be
tween stress and emotional intelligence, the teach
erswithhighemotionalintelligencehavelessstress
as compares to teachers with low emotional intel
ligence.
(viii) There is positive and significant correlation be
tween coping behavior emotional intelligence of
teachers.
(ix)Thereissignificantcorrelationbetweenstressand
personalitytraitsofteachers.Theteacherswhoare
introvert are less stressed as compared to introvert
teachers.
(x) There exists significant and positive relationship
between coping behavior and personality traits of
teachers. Extrovert teachers have good coping be
havior as compared to their counterpart introvert
teachers.
EducationalImplications:
The findings of present study have a bearing
for the researchers, educational planners, principals,
counselors, teachers and other personnel releted to
teachirg profession. Therefore, the implications of re-
search findings of present study are mentioned as
under.
1. The findings of present study will serve as basic
data for the research scholars of education and
psychologyforundertakingresearchworkreleted
tostress,emotionalintelligence,pedsonalitytraits
and coping behaviour.
2. The finding of present study will serve as guides
to prinapals, administrator of schools in creation
conduce environment for reducing the stress
among teachers by knowing the causes of stress
whichare directlyrelated to schoolenvironment.
3. The findings of present study shows that there is
negativecorrelationbetweenstressandemotional
intelligence.Highertheintellligneceamongteach
ers, lower is the stress. So the authorities should
conduct such types of inservice (Workshope &
refresser conisn) programmes for teachers which
are very helpful in enhancing the emotional intel
ligence
4. The findings of present study will seure as gudie
to school anthorities/responsible for teachers se
lection The teachers to be recoruited can be
screened for different dimensions of personality
traits, emotional intelligence and stress etc.
5. The findings of present study will be helpful for
psychologists in studying the relationship be
tween stress, coping behaviour and emotional
intelligence and personality traits of teachers.
6. Thepresentteachereducationprogrammesinthe
country are heavily loaded with the theortical
content. It lacks the integration of knowledge
withemotionalandotherhumansituations.There
is strong need of emotional education and emo
tional and moral training of teachers.
7. Teachers should not berigid in theirthinking and
in ways of dealing with students and staff. The
findings of present study will be helpful to
individval teachers to evaluate their own

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behaviour.
8. By being aware the teachers can reduce stress by
sympathetic handling the situation and adoping
thecopingstrategiestoacquirepositiveanduseful
goals for growth and motivation.
9. One of the causes of stress among teachers is
heavy workload. The school authorities should
find ways to lessen heavy workload by lifting
some of non teaching duties of teachers and dis
tributing workload every among teachers.
10. The findings of present study has educational
implicatior for education department, too. The
education department should see the needs of teach-
ers by discussing with Govt. On inereasing welfare
benefits and upgrading the social status of teacher for
reducing the stress among teachers.
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11. The education department should provide more
teaching aids and resources for different subjects so
thatteacherscangetmoreinformationandmaketeach-
ing more effective and interesting.
12.Personalitytraitsareretativelystabledispositionof
a person. The present findings have high lighted the
significant correlaties of personality traits and stress.
So the teachers to be recruited can be screened of
personality traits which appear to make them vulner-
able to stress.
13 The finding of the present study have implications
for private school management. These managements
should try to remove the causes of stress in their insti-
tutions and provide good facilities for teachers for
better environment in school.
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