A study on the impact of School Area on Mental Stress of Primary School Teachers

Abstract

Today, the people are experiencing most stressful routine every day. People working under stress in order to achieve the productivity and such stressful situation is beyond their control. High level of mental stress can be harmful to anyone. And hence, people must understand their stress level which normally allow them to utilize their mind optimally in order to perform well. Mental stress among the school teacher may be different according to the area of school, urban and rural locality. The community leaving in rural area normally, live with peaceful life though they suffer from several mental stresses such as unemployment, education system, other administration. The people living in urban area normally, live with busy schedule, standard life style, achieving more education even though they experience more complex and many problems. Therefore, every people live with stress according to their situations and it has its own role according to people situations; no one can prevent mental stress. The aim of this paper is to study impact of School Area its Mental Stress of Primary School Teachers of private primary schools of Mehsana district. For this study a survey method is employed by the researcher. Primary data collected from 100 primary school teachers from rural and urban area of Mehsana District. This study is carried out using Mental Stress Rating Scale (MSRScale) developed by Dr. G. S. Patel as a tool of the research study. Mean, S.D., and T-test were used for the analysis and interpretation of collected data. From the study it is concluded that there is no significant difference about mental stress between rural and urban school area’s private primary school teachers working at private primary schools at Mehsana district which shows that both have equal mental stress at work place.