Challenges and Strategies for Enhancing the Psychological Well-Being of College Teachers

Abstract

College teacher’s professional and personal life mostly depends upon their psychological well being. This paper explores the challenges and Strategies for the Psychological Well being of the College Teachers. There are so many challenges that face by the teachers and these challenges impact on the Psychological Well being of the teachers. There are so many reasons like diverse responsibilities and charges, hard job, 24 hours availability due to online structure of education, Academician mostly fight to maintain their work life balance. In addition to it, there are so many emotional demands like managing difficult situations or handle behavior of various natures of students etc. which is required for fulfilling the job responsibilities may leads to stress and anxiety for the teachers. Lack of support by authorities, negative organizational culture, and lack of training and development sessions took the well being of the teachers in last. Higher education authorities may setup a supportive, encouraging and happy environment by addressing and recognizing the psychological well being of the teachers that may leads the overall results of the students. In this paper, ponder try to explore about the various challenges which college teachers face while executing their roles, and strategies and methods for supporting and promoting  the psychological well being of the teachers of higher education. Quantitative secondary data is used to support the literature related to the well being of the college teachers. 55 review of literature has been taken from various published papers and reports.