Marital Satisfaction and Job Satisfaction Among Primary School Teachers in Rural and Urban Areas of Roorkee Taluk (Uttarakhand) and Dharwad Taluk (Karnataka)
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2018-07
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University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad
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The study was conducted to know the levels of marital satisfaction and job satisfaction and their influencing factors among primary school teachers in rural and urban areas of Roorkee taluk (Uttarakhand) and Dharwad taluk (Karnataka) in College of Community Science, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad in 2017-18. The socio-economic status of the teachers was assessed by socio-economic status scale. The marital satisfaction scale and job satisfaction scale were used to assess the marital satisfaction and job satisfaction of teachers.
Majority of the primary teachers had significantly higher level of marital satisfaction (84.16 %) and job satisfaction (78.75 %) in Roorkee and Dharwad taluk. Roorkee teachers indicated higher marital satisfaction as compared to Dharwad teachers. Rural teachers exhibited higher marital satisfaction as compared to urban teachers. With respect to job satisfaction, urban teachers had higher job satisfaction as compared to rural teachers. It revealed that male teachers had higher marital satisfaction and lower job satisfaction as compared to their female counterparts. Factors like educational qualification, socio-economic status, length of marriage, work experience and monthly salary of teachers had positive and significant relationship with marital satisfaction. In case of job satisfaction factors like socio-economic status, family income, work experience and monthly salary had positive and significant relationship while educational qualification of the teachers had negative and significant relationship with job satisfaction. It also revealed a positive and significant relationship between marital satisfaction and job satisfaction of primary school teachers.
Since, job satisfaction among male teachers was low, measures should be taken into consideration which promote their job satisfaction. As female teachers were having lower marital satisfaction, intervention studies are suggested.