A Comparative Study to Assess the Occupational Stress, Coping Strategies and Quality of Life among Governoment and Private Intermediate College Lecturers working in selected colleges at Guntur, Andhra Pradesh

Abstract

The research is on comparative study of occupational stress, coping strategies and quality of life among teaching staff of Intermediate college lecturers working in Guntur. Concept of occupational stress has been of great debate among employers in different organizations and higher institutions since the last decades. Causal-comparative research design was adopted in the study and population comprised of lecturers in four Intermediate colleges in Guntur. the research hypotheses and questionnaires used as research instrument showed that there is significant difference between level of occupational stress to the coping strategies and quality of life among Private Intermediate colleges in Guntur. Percentage count table and Chi- square statistics was used to analyzed the questionnaire and hypotheses. Method: A Comparative study with Descriptive test design was used the simple random technique in which lottery method was used to select the samples for this study. Objectives: The design was adapted To assess, compare and to find the correlation of the level of occupational stress, coping strategies and quality of life among intermediate college lecturers working in the Government College and private college. Also to associate the occupational stress, coping strategies and quality of life with their selected demographic variable among them. Results: Mean, Standard deviation and Independent “t” test value of level of occupational stress, level of coping strategies and quality of life of intermediate college lecturers of government and private college lecturers In Government College the mean score in occupational stress was 33.02 with standard deviation of 14.39 where as in private college the mean score was 41 with standard deviation of 22.77. The calculated “t” test value was 2.094 which is statistically significant at the level of 0.05. In the level of coping strategies the mean score in Government College was 73.84 with standard deviation 11.2 and in private college the mean score was 80.1 with standard deviation of 12.9. The obtained independent “t” test value was 2.59 which is statistically significant the level of 0.05. The obtained mean score of quality of life in Government College was 15.3 with standard deviation 9.48 and in private college the mean score was 15.4 with standard deviation 12.8. The estimated independent “t” test value was 0.044 which is statistically not significant at 0.05 level. Conclusion: From the data of statistical findings, the occupational stress, poor coping strategies and low quality of life is effecting more in Private intermediate college lecturers than Government Intermediate college lecturers who were working in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh.