A Descriptive Survey on Academic Stress Among Adolescents in Selected Higher Secondary School

Abstract

Academic stress is a mental suffering that is associated with some anticipated frustration associated with academic failure or even unawareness to the potential of such failure. This level of mental suffering can be caused by either of these two factors. Among the objectives of this research project are the estimation of the level of academic stress that is experienced by adolescents and the determination of the degree to which academic stress is connected with particular socio-demographic parameters. The research was conducted at St. Antony's Higher Secondary School with sixty adolescents ranging in age from sixteen to eighteen years old. The stress scale developed by Dr. Balaji Rao was utilized for the study. The selection of the teenagers was carried out using an appropriate sampling procedure. According to the conclusions of the study, the majority of students endure moderate levels of stress, while 48 percent of them endure high levels of stress, seven percent endure extreme levels of stress, and three percent endure small levels of stress. In addition, the research indicates that there is a substantial connection between academic stress and a variety of parameters, including age, physical activity, study habits, the length of time spent sleeping, peer interactions, the utilization of social media, time management, and the grade they received on the most recent examination.