Feeling of Work Alienation among Primary School Teachers

By : Sapna Verma

Page No: 469-476

Abstract
The present study aims to investigate the difference that existed between work alienation of primary school teachers teaching in private and government schools as well as between work alienation of overall male and female teachers. Total sample comprised of 120 teachers (60 private school teachers and 60 government school teachers; age range: 30-40 years, Mage = 35 years) purposively drawn from randomly selected 10 schools of Kanpur city. In each group there are 30 male and 30 female teachers. Work Alienation Scale developed by Asthana and Verma was used to measure feeling of work alienation among teachers. Obtained data was analyzed with the help of ANOVA and revealed an insignificant difference in the interaction between job-sector and gender in feeling of work alienation. The overall male teachers felt more work alienation than overall female teachers. The obtained results further revealed that out of seven dimensions of work alienation, feeling of belonginglessness, isolation and meaninglessness was found to be dominant among primary school teachers in comparison to other dimensions.

Author :
Sapna Verma : Associate Professor — Department of Psychology, D.A.V. College, Kanpur