Abstract
The present study was undertaken to find the difference in job stress between physical education teachers and other subject teachers. The present study consists of 120 teachers with equal numbers of physical education and other subject teachers. All the subjects were selected from the Kulgam and Anantnag districts of Kashmir valley, through random sampling technique. Dr. A K Srivastava and Dr. A P Singh’s Job stress Index was used for data collection. t-test was applied to assess the significance of differences between the mean scores of physical education teachers and other subject teachers. The results reveal that significant difference were found between physical education teachers and other subject teachers in different areas of job stress i.e., Role over load, Role conflict, Powerlessness, Intrinsic Impoverishment and Unprofitability. However Role Ambiguity, Unreasonable group and political pressure, Responsibility for persons, Poor peer relations, under participation, Low status and strenuous work condition shows no significant
difference between the mean scores of physical education teachers and other subject teachers.
Key words: Job stress, physical education teachers and other subject teachers.
Author’s- Aejaz Hassan, Dr. P. V. Shelvam