Page No 106-112 Chiya Jaiswal and O. P. Sharma
University of Rajasthan Jaipur
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Teaching is one of the noble professions in the world. A teacher shapes the future of the
nation. It is very important to focus on the Psychological Well- Being of the teachers.
The study aims at understanding the relationship between Interest in teaching profession
and the Psychological Well- Being of the teachers working in private schools. For the
present study, 60 teachers of age range 25 to 35 were selected from rural areas using
purposive sampling method. The sample was sub-divided into categories of male and
female to assess the relationship of interest with psychological well-being. Point Biserial
correlation coefficient was calculated to assess the correlation. The r value obtained
was 0.97635 which is significant at 0.01 levels. The 60 teachers were classified into
low and high interest in teaching profession group with 30 subjects in each group. The
df was 58 and the obtained t- value was 34.3950 which indicate a p value less than
0.0001 which is significant at 0.01 levels. When the subjects were divided in terms of
their gender, the obtained value of t test was 0.4118 and the p- value obtained was
0.682004 which is not significant at 0.01 levels which indicates that no significant
difference lies between male and female groups in the levels of Psychological wellbeing.