A STUDY OF THE EXISTENTIAL MEANING OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN RELATION TO THEIR GENDER AND WORK EXPERIENCE

The present study has tried to explore the existential meaning of secondary school teachers IN relation to their gender and years of experience. A representative sample of 150 teachers from the secondary schools of New Delhi was randomly selected. A tool developed by the researchers was used to assess the existential meaning of the secondary school teachers. The study revealed that there was no significant difference between existential meaning of secondary school male and female teachers. However, contrasting results were found out for teachers with work experience of less than 10 years and more than 10 years and the study showed that there was a significant difference between the existential meaning of these groups. Significant difference was also not found between the existential meaning of male secondary school teachers with less than 10 years and more than 10 years as their work experience. There was a significant difference in the existential meaning of female secondary school teachers with less than 10 years and above 10 years of work experience.