Abstract
The study intended to find out the prevalence of stress in varying degrees among university academics and aimed at contributing knowledge to create awareness about the problem of stress due to teaching among university academics. It was hypothesized that majority of university academics would have high professional life stress.
Study further elaborates the gender differences in the perception of the perceived professional life stress. A total number of 200 university academics, including 100 males and 100 females participated in the study. In order to assess the stress level of university academics, the "Professional Life Stress Scale" was administered.
Descriptive Statistics and t-test were computed for the statistical analysis of the data. The results revealed that 50%, 27 % & 23% of the university academics experienced severe, moderate and mild levels of professional stress respectively. There was no significant result for gender differences obtained in the perception of professional stress among university academics.