• Dr. Vishal Deep

Teacher stress has been an area of concern since the previous century. Lot of researches has been undertaken in this area in India. But student teacher stress is almost an unexplored area which needs thorough investigation. Student teachers of the B. Ed course experience much stress before the commencement of the teaching practice. Teacher education programmes concentrate mainly on methodology and do very little in preparing student teachers to cope with the anxieties and stresses associated with student roles, relationships and responsibilities of teaching. Teacher education curriculum in Punjab also offers no provision to address such a grave problem. Hence the present study was undertaken mainly to investigate on the on the following key aspects related to the student teachers’ stress.

Stress,Coping Strategies,Emotional Intelligence,Student Teachers

" STRESS AND COPING STRATEGIES IN RELATION TO EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF STUDENT TEACHERS OF PUNJAB", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.1058-1062, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901C47.pdf

" STRESS AND COPING STRATEGIES IN RELATION TO EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF STUDENT TEACHERS OF PUNJAB", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp1058-1062, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901C47.pdf