ACADEMIC STRESS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION IN RELATION TO MENTAL HEALTH OF SIGHTED AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED STUDENTS OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL

Present study was undertaken to the academic stress and academic achievement motivation
in relation to mental health of sighted and visual impaired students of senior secondary school. For
this investigation, descriptive study was conducted, for this purpose 260 (130 visually impaired &130
sighted) respondent of class 11th or 12th were selected randomly from two govt. blind and two govt.
sighted schools. Sinha, Sharma and Nagpal’s scale for measuring academic stress was used to see the
magnitude of stress, Dr. T.R.Sharma’s test for measuring academic achievement motivation was used
to see the magnitude of motivation and Jagdish & Srivastava’s Inventory was used to see mental
health of the students. Investigator found that there is no significant relationship between academic
stress, academic achievement motivation and mental health of visually impaired and sighted students.
Keywords: Academic Stress, Academic Achievement Motivation, Mental Health, Sighted students,
Visually Impaired Students