Self-efficacy, spiritual value and occupational stress as a predictor of life expectancy among school teachers

INTRODUCTION 1.1.1 Background of the study Life satisfaction is an essential part of the great experience of living. The fact of this has been known since early times. Every age group tried to achieve life satisfaction, whereas it might be achieved by the combination of self-efficacy and spiritual values. These encourage an individual to be creative and dedicate towards the task and consequently feel satisfaction in his/her life. The discipline, honesty, integrity, and justice are the possible contributor to life satisfaction which can be acquired by knowledge, responsibility, and sense of duty. The empathy, compassion, wisdom, and connectedness are the components to maintain lifelong relationships either in the family or in the organization. Bailey, Eng, Frisch & Snyder, (2007) found that life satisfaction is one of the most important issues of the present scenario. Evidence shows that life satisfaction can reproduce experiences that have influenced a person in a positive way. These experiences have the ability to motivate people to pursue and reach their respective goals. Life satisfaction vary from person to person; for scientists it may be inventions, for a doctors it may be to cure to their patients, for the social workers it may be quality work to contribute the society in developing as well as maintaining peace, harmony, prosperity, and belongingness, for the teachers it may be transfer of knowledge, values, and virtues. Yet, some researchers measure life satisfaction by different means like socioeconomic status, education, working experiences, the standard of living, relationships, workload, role playing etc. According to Sousa and Lyubomirsky, (2001), "Life satisfaction is in fact,