Mental Health as a Predictor of Emotional Competence of School Lecturers of District Solan

This paper deals with the mental health as a predictor of emotional competence of school lecturers of Himachal Pradesh. Mental health and emotional problems can have a profound impact on all aspects of teaching at all levels. These problems may also have negative impact on academic performance, retention and learning rates. The present study is a wonderful effort of the researcher in trying to diagnose and suggesting the measures to resolving these problems in school lecturers. By opting the survey method the researcher randomly selected 160 school lecturers from 20 Govt. senior secondary school teachers of four educational blocks of district Solan of Himachal Pradesh. Mental Health Inventory developed by Dr. Jagdish and Dr. A.K. Srivastava (1996) and Scale of Emotional Competency (SEC) developed by H.C. Sharma and R. Bhardwaj used by the researcher to measure emotional competence of school lecturers. The findings of the study revealed that school lecturers belonging to general and reserved categories were found significantly different in their emotional competence. The poor score of mental health of school lecturers belonging to reserved category indicates their weakness in qualities like selfconfidence, self-acceptance, self-identity, self-realization, acceptance of others and adjustment in different situations. The results of the study further revealed that there is no significant difference in the emotional competence of high and low mentally healthy school lecturers. It shows that emotions do not affect the mental health of school lecturers. The valuable suggestions are also mentioned by the researcher for the improving mental health school lecturers.