Abstract
A study on emotional competence and stressors of 105 primary school teachers was conducted in Dharwad in 2009. Emotional competence was assessed using EC- scale and stressors by stress inventory for teachers (SIT). Results revealed that majority of the teachers (89.5%) showed average to competent levels of emotional competence, followed by 6.7 and 3.8% in incompetent and highly competent levels respectively. Most of them (64.7%) indicated average to high levels of stress and 35.2% with low stress. Age and work experience showed positive and highly significant relationship with the emotional competence of teachers. The stress of teachers showed negative and highly significant relationship with age and work experience. Negative and highly significant relationship was observed between the stressors and emotional competence of the teachers. Thus, the study concluded that increase in the emotional competence reduced the stressors of the primary school teachers significantly.
Key words: Stressors, emotional competence, primary school teachers.
