Abstract

Teacher mental health is a crucial component of any functioning education system significantly influencing teaching quality classroom dynamics student performance and institutional effectiveness. Across the world increasing workloads administrative pressures behavioral challenges among students and lack of psychosocial support structures have intensified mental health concerns among educators. This research paper investigates and compares the mental health conditions of public and private school teachers examining stress levels emotional burnout job satisfaction anxiety prevalence and the presence or absence of institutional support mechanisms. Public school teachers often experience structured working hours job security and unionized environments yet they also face bureaucratic pressures overcrowded classrooms policy-driven workloads and limited infrastructural flexibility. Private school teachers meanwhile frequently encounter performance-based pressures competitive environments rest