Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

The present study was planned to investigate stress among the government and private primary school teachers. A sample of 120 (60 each of government and private) primary school teachers of Kanpur city was selected randomly for the study. The Occupational Stress Index (OSI) developed by Srivastava, A.K., and Singh, A.P., was used to assess the level of job stress. The finding of the study revealed that the level of stress among school teachers was in low level. The most dominant stress factor was in the areas of role overload, role ambiguity, role conflict, unreasonable group and political pressure, and unprofitability.