Tika Ram College of Education, Sonepat
Online published on 27 June, 2014.
People of all ages are affected by stress and anxiety. High school students seem especially vulnerable to this reality. Adolescence is a time of rapid biological change, personal development, social interactions, social expectations, and peer influence. The locus of much of this phenomenon is in the school environment. For many students, high school may be stressful. Students feel the effects of stress in harsh and also negative ways. Some of these effects include a sudden drop in grades, depression, general fatigue, insomnia, mood swings, temper tantrums and aggression. So the present study is an attempt to identify the possible stress producing situation in senior secondary school students. For the sample of the present study 100 students of senior secondary schools (25 boys and 25 girls from government schools and 25 boys and 25 girls from non-government schools) were selected on random basis. The investigators used Students stress scale which was developed by Dr. Zaki Akhtar. The main finding of study reveals that Stress levels affect the students academically and change the way the person thinks and acts during school or time spent in studying.
