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The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the society members. However, its impact was not similar as different people reacted differently to the challenging situations. The responsibility of developing good sportspersons and healthy society is primarily relies on the physical education lecturers. However, their regular job took a direct hit due to the Covid-19 induced lockdowns. All this was associated with high amount of uncertainty with their future. In the backdrop of above, this investigation was carried out to compare the status of psychological factors like stress, anxiety, hostility and frustration tolerance of physical education lecturers of rural and urban areas of Nagpur District of Maharashtra. All the standard methods for data collection and analysis were employed to undertake this study. The results of the study show that stress, anxiety and hostility were significantly high in the physical education lecturers of urban area, while the frustration tolerance was moderate and high amongst the physical education lecturers of urban and rural areas respectively.