A study of the professional jealousy among teachers

Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Psychology - Personality Psychology, , language: English, abstract: In the present research study an attempt was made to understand the psychology of professional jealousy among the teachers. Jealousy is an emotion and typically refers to the negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety over an anticipated loss of something that the person values, such as a relationship, friendship, or love. Research has identified a number of factors associated with jealousy. Although both women and men experience jealousy, there are differences in the ways they experience and react to it. Main objectives of the study were 1)To find out the teachers who have professional Jealousy.2)To find out the situations that generates the professional Jealousy. 3) To find out the causes of Jealousy. 4) To enlist the Symptoms of Jealous behavior of colleague. Covert Participant observation method was used for the study. Jealousy was found to be more in the teachers who are ambitious, struggling high to achieve worthy position. Having average or below average level academic performance. Main causes of jealousy were found in the organization: When someone they hate succeeded, managed to get something and they thought that he didn't deserve it, achieved something that that had always wanted to achieve but didn't manage to get it. Lack of self confidence, Poor Self Concept, Fear Insecurity are the possible root causes for jealousy. The symptoms that indicates that colleague is jealous of you are: they avoid you, they spread rumours about you, they avoid making eye contact with you, not acknowledging your presence, not invited to social events.They don't ever include you in their office humours Envy is a universal trait. However, if left unchecked in the workplace, it leads to problems..

Dr. Kiran Prahlad Dammani is the Principal of SGS B.Ed. College, Indore, India. She has obtained Masters's Degree in Subject Education, English Literature, Psychology. She Is Ph.D. In Education. She has published more than 55 research papers in various national and international journals. she has also prsented more than 40 research papers at Various Conferences and Seminars. She is a recognized Ph.D. guide of DAVV Indore. The area of her research work is Positive Psychology, Educational Psychology, Teaching of English, Educational Technology and Quantitative research . She having 21 years of administrative experience in Teacher Education. She is the Life Member of the All India Association of Educational Research India(aiaer).(2591) and also the Member of Board of Studies (Education) DAVV Indore. She bagged Best Teacher Educationist National Award named ' IPERA -Prof. Ahluwalia Memorial Best Teacher Educationalist Award - 2018 ' awarded by Indian Psychometric and Educational Research Association IPERA 1st October 2018 andBest Paper Presentation award by ANAND CELL, DAVV Indore, SCSIT, DAVV, Indore, for the presentation of paper on 'Study of the Happiness of the Teachers of the Indore City, in the National Symposium on Health Happiness