Life Satisfaction among Rural and Urban School Teachers of Punjab in Relation to their Teaching Attitude and Organizational Climate

Abstract

The progress of the nation depends upon the quality of its people and quality of its teachers. For a real teacher teaching is a struggle, a life mission and is expected to have his own code of work and ethics. A teacher who is happy with his job plays a pivotal role in the upliftment of the society. A dissatisfied teacher can become irritable and may create tension which is likely to have an adverse effect on the student learning process which consequently affects their academic growth. Life satisfaction implies the overall adjustment to work situations.Teachers who are generally unenthusiastic about the teaching profession (i.e. having a negative job orientation) reported in one study, that they were more distressed about their teaching situation than were teachers who were enthusiastic. Thus, for the professional growth of the teachers and improvements in education, the attitudes held by them are very important. How a teacher performs his/her duty as a teacher is dependent, to a great extent, on his/her attitudes, values and beliefs. A positive favourable attitude makes the work not only easier but also more satisfying and professionally rewarding. A negative and unfavourable attitude makes the teaching task harder, tedious and unpleasant. In addition, a teacher s attitude also influences the behaviour of her/his students. Thus effective and productive learning on the part of students can be achieved only by teachers with desirable attitudes. Thus, teacher s attitude towards teaching profession forms the major variable for the present study on secondary school teachers. A number of research studies have been conducted in this regard. These studies have revealed consistent correlation of single variable of the above said variables with teacher s life satisfaction. But in this study we are only concerned with consistent correlation of all the variables of the study with teacher s life satisfaction and these variables are teaching attitude and organizational climate.It is worth to probe into the effect of their te