Work Stress among College Teachers in Self-financing College: An Explorative Study

Teaching profession was once viewed as a ‘low stress occupation’ and they have been envied for tenure, light workload, flexibility and other perks such as foreign trips for study and conference. However, some recent studies suggest that university faculty is among the most stressed occupational group. The present study was conducted to explore the faculty perception towards occupational stress using established questionnaire, data collected from five departments in the private colleges. To find opinion about teaching and handling students, to find out the stress creators, to analysis of sharing stress problems, to find out techniques applied by the College teachers for managing stress.