Mental Health of Secondary and Higher Secondary School Teachers - An Analysis

Pachaiyappan, P.; Raj, Dilip

doi:10.15373/22778179/feb2014/37

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“…The findings of Nagai et al (2007), Gorsy, Panwar, & Kumar (2015), , Antonious et. al (2013), Abkhoul and Jenaabadi (2015), , Pachaiyappan (2012), andMundia (2013) do not support the findings of the current study. Nagai et al (2007), Gorsy, Panwar, & Kumar (2015), Mundia (2013) stated that male student teachers were significantly different from female teachers.…”

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“…Nagai et al (2007), Gorsy, Panwar, & Kumar (2015), Mundia (2013) stated that male student teachers were significantly different from female teachers. Whereas and Pachaiyappan (2012) revealed that, as compared to male teachers, female teachers have a high level of mental health. The researcher believes that male and female teachers have the same profession, they deal with same students but with different strategies and have same workload.…”

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“…Interestingly, one of the results of the study showed that both male and female teachers suffer from mental health problems but not very high. The study of , Nagai et al (2007), Gorsy, Panwar, & Kumar (2015), , and Pachaiyappan & Dushalaya (2014) pinpointed that in comparison to female teachers, male teachers have better mental health. However, the study of , and Pachaiyappan & Dushalaya (2014) revealed that mental health of female teachers is high than male teachers.…”

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“…The study of , Nagai et al (2007), Gorsy, Panwar, & Kumar (2015), , and Pachaiyappan & Dushalaya (2014) pinpointed that in comparison to female teachers, male teachers have better mental health. However, the study of , and Pachaiyappan & Dushalaya (2014) revealed that mental health of female teachers is high than male teachers. Being a researcher, it is believed that the teaching profession is one of the hardest professions.…”

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“…Mean of anxiety, hopelessness, restlessness, nervousness and anger sleep disorder, indigestion, headache, and heart burnout were not significantly different. Pachaiyappan & Dushalaya (2014) studied the mental health of teachers at secondary and higher secondary levels. The results declared that teachers at secondary level had low mental health than teachers at higher secondary school level.…”

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Mental health is the ability of a person to deal with daily challenges. Mental health of teacher is one of the key factors that can play a role of barrier in path of effective teaching. In this regard, a descriptive research was conducted to explore the mental health among male and female subject specialist teachers at Higher Secondary School level. Therefore, sample of 141 subject specialists, both male (79) and female (62), were selected from 35 Higher Secondary Schools of district Peshawar through proportionate stratified random sampling technique. A standardized Mental health checklist was used for the collection of data. The findings of the study revealed that both male and female teachers rarely suffer from mental problems and physical problems. Also, both the groups possessed better mental health. However, there is no significant difference between mental health of male and female teachers. According to findings of the study some recommendations are suggested.

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