Adults commonly tell young people that adolescence period is the ‘best years of life’ as picture is adolescents energetically involved at dance, part of various events or couple holding hands. The other part of picture is a painful tug of war filled with conflicting demands from parent, teacher, coaches, friends and oneself. The objective of the present study was to compare the stress levels in rural and urban adolescents. The sample of the study consisted of 200 respondents of whom 100 were male (50 rural and 50 urban) and 100 were female (50 rural and 50 urban). Their age levels were 13–19. They were selected purposively from different areas of Haridwar district of Uttarakhand. The obtained data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, t-test. Overall findings indicated that there is significant difference between academic stress, emotional stress, social stress and overall stress of rural and urban adolescents.
Stress Adolescence
