Professional Well-Being And The Psychological Status Of Teachers Of High Schools Run By Different Types Of School Management: A Survey

Abstract

The Researchers of the current study have scientifically conceived the rarely talked about inherent problem of the school teachers – Professional wellbeing – capable of debilitating their efforts and acumen, - and successfully executed the same to arrive at valid findings.  A sample of 400 teachers of high schools in the region of Chennai Central Educational district was chosen by stratification done on type of school management by random sampling; and administered. As perceived, the overall Professional wellbeing and all its dimensions exhibited significant correlation with Resilience and Compassion and are predicted by the same independent variables.  More importantly, the demographic variable – Type of School Management – did shed light on the uniqueness of the teachers of Government, Aided and Private schools. As envisaged by the Researchers, the Government school teachers scored ‘High’ in overall Professional wellbeing because of high attainment in three of the Four dimensions – Affective wellbeing, Autonomy and Competence, despite a poor show in Resilience and Compassion. The Aided school teachers settled at Moderate level in their overall Professional wellbeing, along with its dimensions Affective wellbeing, Aspiration and Autonomy. They fared so poor to strike Low in Competence and a disappointing moderate level in Resilience and Compassion.  The much focused teachers of Private schools exhibited Moderate level overall attainment in Professional wellbeing along with the dimension Autonomy; however, they have saved their face by striking High in Aspiration and Competence. The differential analysis confirmed the Top position in overall Professional wellbeing for the Government school teachers, the Second position for the Private and the Third position for the Aided school teachers. The study also threw sufficient light on the interactive effect of the independent variables over the dependent ones.