Assess the effectiveness of rebt on academic stress Among Adolescent Girls

Adolescence is the formative as well as transitional period of life. It is also called a period of stress and storm. During this unique developmental period, adolescents have to adjust with new changes and challenges of puberty, independence, identity development, and preparation for future roles.

To evaluate the effectiveness of REBT on Academic stress among adolescent girls.

Experimental design was found to be an appropriate research design for the study.

The study was conducted in private school, Neikarapatty.

30 adolescent girls fulfilling the inclusion criteria was selected for the study by using purposive sampling technique.

The data was collected from Adolescent girls in both the groups, after permission obtained from Headmaster in selected private schools, Salem. Pretest was done using student stress scale and REBT was intervened and adolescent girls were advised to practice on regular basis once a day for 15 mts and Posttest was done.

It shows that age of adolescent girls reveals that 67 % where in the age group of 16-17 years and studying in 10^th std. Equal percentage (53%) of children placed themselves in B grade and slept more than 7hrs /day. Percentage wise distribution of adolescent girls according to their level of stress, during Pre-intervention out of 30 subjects, Half of the sample 15 (50%) of them experienced mild stress, 30% had moderate stress and 20% of them had severes tress.In the course of Post intervention majority 21 (70%) of them sensed moderate stress and 9 (30 %) of them noticed moderate stress. It showed the effectiveness of REBT. There was no association between pretest and post test scores of demographic variables.

There was no significant association between pretest and posttest with their demographic variables. It shows that as REBT was effective in reducing academic stress.