ROLE CONFLICT AMONG TEACHERS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE BASIS OF TYPE OF INSTITUTION, ACADEMIC STREAM AND LOCUS OF CONTROL

The present study was designed to investigate role conflict and its dimensions i.e. work-family conflict (WFC), family-work conflict (FWC), work-professional growth conflict (WPC), work-self conflict (WSC), work-health conflict (WHC) and work-social conflict(WSC) among teachers working in Colleges of Education in relation to type of institution, academic stream and locus of control. While employing descriptive survey method, the present study was conducted on a sample of 300 teachers working in B.Ed. colleges of Haryana. The sample was selected by using multi-stage random sampling technique. Teacher’s Role Conflict Scale and Teacher’s Locus of Control Scale standardized by Gupta and Nain were used for data collection. Means, S.D’s were worked out to describe the nature of data and 't' test was applied to test the significance of different groups. The findings revealed significant difference in role conflict and its dimensions among teachers working in govt./govt. aided and self-financing B.Ed. colleges; having internal and external locus of control. A significant difference in role conflict and its dimensions among teachers belonging to science and arts stream except family-work conflict, work-self conflict and work-health conflict was observed