Effect of School Area on Mental Stress of Primary School Teachers of Surendranagar District

Most of people experience stress at one time or another. People often work well under certain stress leading to increase productivity. The situation may not be under control. High level of mental stress is harmful for anyone. They should know their level of mental stress that allows them to perform optimally in their lives. Mental stress may be different according to school area, urban and rural. The people of rural area mostly live with normal and peaceful life though they suffer from mental stress like unemployment, sort of schools, education system etc. The people of urban area live with high life style, busy schedule, achieving more education though they suffer from many problems. Thus, there is stress according to their situations. Stress has its own part according to their situations; none can escape from mental stress. The objective of the study has to study the effect of school area of primary teachers of government primary schools of Surendranagar district. For the present study survey method has used by the researcher. Data has collected from government primary school teachers in Surendranagar district. The data has collected from 100 primary teachers residing urban and rural school area of Surendranagar district. In this study researcher has used Mental Stress Rating Scale developed by Dr. G.S. Patel as a tool of the research study. For the analysis and interpretation of data, Mean, S.D., and T test were used. From the analysis the researcher concluded that there is no significant difference about mental stress between urban and rural school area government primary school teachers working at government primary schools at Surendranagar district which states that both have equally victim of mental stress at work place.