Volume : II, Issue : XII, December - 2013

Appraising The Stress Level of 8th Grade Students

Bani Lekha Phukan, Dr. K. Arockia Maraichelvi

Abstract :

Students of this generation face unparalleled pressure and challenges with society’s current emphasis on academic perfection. Present study was undertaken to examine the level of stress among the selected sample of 8th grade students and analyse its institution specific differences (private and government). Also the study examines the influence of the independent variables namely gender and age on the stress level and its interaction effect on the same. Institution based cross sectional research design was adopted, where in six schools (three private and three government) were identified through multistage cluster sampling and all the 8th standard students of the identified schools constitute the sample. Thus a total of 528 students were selected out of which 355 were taken from a private school and the remaining 173 from a government school. Questionnaire to elicit the general background of the selected children and checklist to assess the perceived stress level of school children was constructed and administered to the sample. Results indicated that the magnitude of stress was significantly higher among the government school students, whereas private school students were remarkably better in terms of their level of stress. The findings support the idea that all students must be tailored with stress coping mechanism for their high level of stress with special focus on government school students so that their approach to deal with stress can be changed.

Keywords :

Article: Download PDF   DOI : 10.36106/ijsr  

Cite This Article:

Bani Lekha Phukan, Dr. K. Arockia Maraichelvi Appraising The Stress Level of 8th Grade Students International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.II, Issue.XII December 2013

Number of Downloads : 802

References :