Relationship between Occupational Stress and Family Environment among Under-Graduate Women Teachers

Abstract

The present study reports level of the relationship between occupational stress and family environment of undergraduate women teachers. A total of 264 women teachers working on permanent and temporary basis belonging to different age groups were randomly selected for the study. They were administered occupational stress scale and family environment scale, consisting of 46 and 90 items, respectively measuring occupational stress and family environment in 12 and 10 dimensions, respectively. The occupational stress was measured in the following subscale role overload, role ambiguity, role conflict, unreasonable group and political pressure, responsibility for persons, under participation, powerless. The family environment was measured in the following dimensions–cohesion, expressiveness, conflict, independence, achievement orientation, intellectual orientation, active recreational, moral religious emphasis, organisation and control. Data were subjected to stepwise multiple regression to find out the relationship between occupational stress and family environment. Results revealed that only two components of FES best predicted the occupational stress of the teachers, they are-conflict and achievement orientation.