A STUDY OF ACADEMIC STRESS AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS

The present research work is an attempt by the investigator to study academic stress among secondary school students in relation to their socio-economic status. A descriptive research method was used. A sample of 120 secondary school students was taken based on a random sampling method. Bisht Battery of Stress Scale (for adolescents and adults) developed and standardized by Dr. (Km.) Abha Rani Bisht and Socio-economic status scale developed by Dr. A. Kalia and Dr. Sahu were used to collect the data. Statistical techniques such as Mean, Standard Deviation, ‘t-test, and Karl Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation were used to analyze the data. It was observed from the analysis of data that female secondary school students have more academic stress than male secondary school students, while students having low and high levels of socio-economic status do not differ significantly on academic stress and academic stress and socio-economic status of secondary school students are negatively correlated with each other. It can be interpreted that the higher the socio-economic status, the lower the academic stress of secondary school students and vice-versa.