Happiness Level of Secondary School Teachers in Relation to their Job Satisfaction

International Journal of Humanities and Social Science

© 2015 by SSRG - IJHSS Journal

Volume 2 Issue 3

Year of Publication : 2015

Authors : Pranjal Buragohain and Mukut Hazarika

10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V2I3P102

How to Cite?

Pranjal Buragohain and Mukut Hazarika, "Happiness Level of Secondary School Teachers in Relation to their Job Satisfaction," SSRG International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, vol. 2,  no. 3, pp. 12-36, 2015. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V2I3P102

Abstract:

Happiness is a state of well-being. It is the degree to which an individual judges the overall quality of his own life as a whole favourably. In the present paper the construct of happiness includes the five elements of Seligman’s Well-being model viz. positive emotions, engagement, meaning, positive relationship and accomplishment. The present paper is an attempt to focus on the happiness and job satisfaction level of the Secondary school teachers of Dibrugarh district as well as comparison of the happiness and job satisfaction level among the different categories of the Secondary school teachers of Dibrugarh district. It has been increasingly realized that the quality of the work of the workers, the climate of an organization highly depends on the happy mood of the workers Therefore, it is also necessary to study, the extent to which a happy mood is responsible for the quality of teaching-learning phenomena, the extent to which educational institution demands happiness among the teachers and workers and also the extent to which teachers’ job satisfaction is influenced by happy mood. So, present paper is an effort to bridge such gaps in Indian context. The study showed that happiness is closely associated with job satisfaction. A happy teacher possesses high job satisfaction and a teacher having high job satisfaction is happier

Keywords:

Happiness, Job Satisfaction, Secondary school

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