Factors Causing Stress among College Teachers in Rohtak Region (Haryana)

Teaching is such type of special job in which the hope of student‟s guardians are very large regarding to the student‟s learning progress, future career and about the establishment of the personality of students along with education (Wilson, 2002). This research has been conducted to find out the factors causing stress among college teachers. Further the objective of the study is to suggest some ways to minimize the stress among college teachers. A well structured questionnaire was developed for conducting this study. This study comprises of 86 faculty members of different colleges of Rohtak City. To collect the responses of targeted respondents random sampling techniques was used. This study is based on both qualitative and quantitative techniques of data collection. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted to take views from the college teachers. Factor analysis was applied and revealed four factors causing stress among college teachers. The first factor which is more stressful is related to internal environment of the college and second factor is related to the stress due to family problems and extra duties. Third factor is associated with inadequate rewards and benefits and the last but least stressful factor is related to students.