Academic stress among high school children
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Neurosciences - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Stress is a state of mental or emotional strain or tension caused by the acts of others situations and tasks which demand a performance beyond a persons capability or capacity The children are compelled to spend more hours in schools on all six days a week in Andhra Pradesh some private schools conduct special classes on Sundays and public holidays The long hours of schooling with less scope for play sports recreation socialization hobbies and travel is causing more stress among school children This study was an exploratory research designed to assess the levels of academic stress among the adolescent boys and girls aged between 14 to 15 years and studying 10th class in Tirupati Municipality The sample consisted of 240 children of which 120 were boys and 120 were girls The Academic stress scale consisting of fourty items representing five stressor domains namely Cognitive Affective Behavioral Physical and Social was developed standardized and administeredThe findings showed that the adolescent girls and boys perceived high 579 to very high 40 levels of academic stress There was significant difference between boys and girls in their academic stress in cognitive domain at 005 level t2311and p0022 and the girls had stress levels 3171 367 higher than boys 3045 470 in this domain The boys and girls also differed significantly in their physical stress at 005 level t2213 and p0028 and boys had higher levels 2823 486 of physical stress when compared to the girls 2686 476 Among the five stressor domains statistically significant association was found between gender and behavioural domain of academic stress at 001 level 29903 and p0007There was no association found between gender and Cognitive Affective Physical and Social domains The findings of the study indicates the need for intervention programmes for High school children in stress management and also stresses the need to revisit and revamp our examination system to provide a stress free learning environment to promote mental and general health of school children
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Anupama K, Sarada D
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