Hedonic Well-Being: An Essential Component for Teachers Work Life (Only Abstract)

Abstract

Teachers play an important role in student’s scholastic lives so teaching profession is an emotionally draining profession. Teachers persistently dedicate themselves to their profession both sensitively and rationally. Teaching has been rated as one of the most stressful job and stress directly or indirectly affects the hedonic well-being of teachers. Teaching is quite different from other profession because of some distinctive characteristics. Different profession has different work characteristics which affect employees’ wellbeing. Therefore insight towards teacher’s hedonic well-being is essential as it adds to the understanding of teacher’s careers and will also be helpful in exploring factors that are of great concern to teacher’s wellbeing. This will be helpful in creating school contexts which helps in fostering teacher’s job commitment which eventually lessen the dropout rate in teaching profession. The present study discusses the importance of hedonic well-being in teaching profession by highlighting the factors which effect hedonic well-being of teachers