Study of Stress among Adolescent Students in Relation to Working Status of their Mothers and family Environment

The present study is about the stress among adolescent students. Adolescence stage is stage of stress and strain and emotional upheavals. It is the period which refers to the development and adjustment during the transition period between childhood and adulthood. If the adolescent get the right path and right guidance they can be proved good citizens but with lack of proper and congenial atmosphere which is being provided by school, home, society etc they may become juvenile delinquents and further becomes criminals. Family environment and Working Status of mothers have the important role in the life of adolescents. In order to conduct the study, stress was studied as dependent variable and working status of mothers was studied as classificatory variable. Family environment was studied as independent variable. 2*2 factorial design was employed on the scores of stress of adolescent students.