Page No.251-257
Meena Kumari
Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, Haryana
The present study is an attempt to understand personality and occupational
stress differentials of high school female teachers in Haryana. For this, 361
high school female teachers were tested with Maslach Burnout Inventory. The
subjects were categorized into high and low burnout groups on the basis of test
scores and that 128 subjects scored below P30 and 117 subjects scored above
P70, thus constituted low and high burnout groups, respectively. Selected subjects
were further tested with EPQ-R, Jenkins’ Activity Survey and occupational stress
index. The results differentiated the two groups. The high burnout group scored
significantly high on psychoticism, neuroticism, lie scale, type-A behaviour,
emotional exhaustion, depersonalization but low on extraversion, occupational
stress and personal accomplishment. The low burnout group scored low on
psychoticism, neuroticism, lie scale, type-A behaviour and all the three
dimensions of burnout viz. emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced
personal accomplishment, but high on extraversion and occupational stress.