An Analysis of Occupational Stress among College and School Teachers During COVID-19 Pandemic with Special Reference to Pavaratty Region

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought enormous changes in the working pattern of teachers. The noteworthy changes are work from home and usage of electronic gadgets for official work. The methodology of teaching too changed from physical classrooms to online modes. This compulsion to change the working pattern brought high challenge to the teachers which lead to occupational stress in them. In this paper, the attempts have been made to study the level of occupational stress, factors related to it and to identify the barriers that school and college teachers experienced while working during the pandemic. For this purpose analytical research design was adopted and convenience sampling with self administered questionnaire was used for data collection. IBM SPSS and Microsoft Excel is used for the data analysis and then the inferences were drawn. The study reveals that, there is a high level of prevalence of occupational stress among the school and college teachers during online teaching. The reduction of occupational stress will induce the teachers to provide efficient and effective service to the society. So, this study calls for appropriate interventions taken by the authorities to reduce stress among school and college teachers and to resolve causes of occupational stress among them.