A STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AMONG FEMALE TEACHERS WORKING IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN TEZPUR TOWN OF ASSAM

“Occupational Stress” is an unavoidable phenomenon in human life in today's world of rapid industrialization and increasing urbanization. It is a psychophysical condition which affects an individual's productivity, effectiveness ,personal health and quality of work. Teacher stress is a specific type of occupational stress. Teaching profession can be identified as a stressful occupation in this modern challenging world which can adversely affect the health of the teachers which in turn affects the students and the learning environment. In this respect, female school teachers usually faced lots of occupational stress particularly the married female teachers as they have to play multiple roles both at homes and schools. In this paper, attempts have been made to identify the main causes of occupational stress among the female teachers of secondary schools and the ways for preventing and minimizing the same.