ACADEMIC STRESS OF SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR SELF-ESTEEM

Volume : IV, Issue : III, March - 2015

Dr. Mohit Dixit, Nirpal Singh

This study was conducted to find out academic stress and self–esteem among school students .The sample consisted 

200 School students falling in district of Punjab i.e. Ludhiana from which 100 govt. and 100 private from rural and 

urban areas, Student Stress Scale developed and standardized by Z. Akhtar and Self–esteem Inventory developed and 

standardized by Coppersmith (1967)were used to collect he data. The statistical techniques were used the mean ,standard deviation, t–value and 

coefficient of correlation . The results showed that the factors like set–up of the school. and gender of the school students influence academic 

stress and self–esteem.