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Stress In Adolescents Due To Family And School Performnce

Paper Id : 17748 Submission Date : 2023-06-02 Acceptance Date : 2023-06-13 Publication Date : 2023-06-14
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Tatheer Fatma
Associate Professor
Department Of Home Science
Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Language University
Lucknow,Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to know the causes of stress due to family and school performance, so a complete sample of three hundred adolescents from 6 schools of Lucknow district were arbitrarily chosen, whereby one hundred fifty boys and one hundred fifty girls were further selected for this study. Hundred fifty boys & equal number of girls were further divided into fifty respondents belonging to lower, middle and higher Socio-economic status. For the study self developed questionnaire and Socio-economic scale by Kuppu swami was used. It was noted that most of the male and female adolescents from the entire socio-economic group were frequently suffering from the stress caused by their families. Result indicated that male from upper and middle socio-economic group and female from upper and lower socio-economic group were given more pressure to perform academically better.

Keywords

Adolescents, socio-economic status, gender, socio-economic status, stress, family, school performance

Introduction

Adolescence is characterized by physical maturation of the brain and body, giving rise to intense psychological and physical changes. One primary class of psychological change typical of adolescence is an intensification of emotional experiences. These heightened emotional experiences have been argued to be the basis of psychopathology and suicidal behavior. Adolescence is the most common time of life for psychiatric illness to emerge (Kessler et al., 2005), with reported anxiety reaching its lifetime peak (Abe & Suzuki, 1986). These findings, in combination with adult data showing anxiety disorders to be the most common class of psychiatric illness (Kessler et al., 2005), underscores the importance of understanding the developmental and neurobiological substrates that give rise to anxious states and related pathologies (Paus et al., 2008; Pine et al., 2001; Steinberg, 2008). When the adolescents in this age are not given proper attention by their parents and teachers they indulge themselves in antisocial activities. The adolescents during this period of maturation are exposed to profound stressors and based on their personality traits and protective factors they are able to mediate between these stress and coping behavior, but in others it may be a period of instability and adjustment difficulties. This instability may become one of the risks for going ahead towards ending the life or committing suicide.

Objective of study

1. To study the stress caused by family among male and female adolescents from different socio-economic status. 2. To find out the stress caused by school performance among male and female adolescents from different socio-economic status.

Review of Literature

Tools Used

Self Developed Questionnaire and Socio-economic status scale by Kuppu Swami were administered for data collection.

Result and Discussion

Table: 1.1 Frequency and percentage distribution of respondents in reference to their stress caused by family

S.N.	Statements	Male(n=150)						Female(n=150)
		Upper SES		Middle SES		Lower SES		Upper SES		Middle SES		Lower SES
		F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P	F	p	F	P
1.	Always	14	28	18	36	12	24	14	28	13	26	16	32
2.	Frequently	26	52	27	54	26	52	31	62	33	66	27	54
3.	Never	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00
4.	Occasionally	08	16	05	10	12	24	04	08	04	08	07	14
5.	Rarely	02	04	00	00	00	00	01	02	00	00	00	00

F= Frequency

P = Percentage

Fig:1.1 Distribution of respondents in reference to their stress caused by family

Table: 1.1 depicts distribution of respondents in reference to their stress caused by family. It can be clearly observed that the stress was frequently caused by family across the entire socio-economic group to male and female adolescents. When we see percentage, majority of the male adolescents from middle socio-economic group were having stress frequently caused by their family that is 54 per cent and similar results were found from lower and upper socio-economic group as well 52 per cent in each socio-economic group respectively. Among the female respondents majority of the middle class adolescents that is 66 percent were in the support of the statement that stress was frequently caused by their family followed by upper and lower socio-economic group that is 62 and 54 per cent respectively. 36 per cent male from middle 28 per cent upper and 24 per cent from lower socio-economic group adolescents said that stress is always caused by family 32 per cent female from lower 28 per cent from upper and 26 percent from middle socio-economic group were in the favour of same statement. Table also reveals that 24 per cent male from lower,16 per cent from upper and 10 per cent from middle socio-economic group stress occasionally caused by family while 14 per cent female adolescents from lower and 08 per cent each from upper and middle socio-economic group were in the favour that stress was occasionally caused by their family. Only 02 per cent male and 02 per cent female from upper socio-economic group were in the favour that stress was rarely caused by family and none of them from middle and lower socio-economic group was in the favour of the statement. Adolescents across the entire socio-economic group were not in favour that stress was never caused by family. It is surprising and very unfortunate that most of the male and female adolescents from the entire socio-economic group were frequently suffering from the stress caused by their families. It might be because adolescent is the period of storm and stress and family puts more pressure to maintain their future and healthy life. Li and Yen (1998) conducted a study to assess high school student’s perception of stress from daily events and to identify its associated factors. From the principal component analysis, school work, concern with prospects, parent-teen relationship and peer relationship were found to be the main sources of daily life stress perceived. Screening by personality trait and social support questionnaire was suggested to be a routine at school to find out the high risk individuals and give them.

Table: 1.2 Frequency and percentage distribution of respondents in reference to their stress caused by school performance

S.N.	Statements	Male(N=150)						Female(N=150)
		Upper SES		Middle SES		Lower SES		Upper SES		Middle SES		Lower SES
		F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P
1.	Always	09	18	19	38	14	28	14	28	17	34	24	48
2.	Frequently	27	54	25	50	15	30	25	50	21	42	16	32
3.	Never	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00
4.	Occasionally	12	24	05	10	21	42	11	22	12	24	10	20
5.	Rarely	02	04	01	02	00	00	00	00	00	00	00	00

F= Frequency

P = Percentage

Fig: 1.2 Distribution of respondents in reference to their stress caused by school performance

Table: 1.2 shows the distribution of respondents in reference to their stress caused by school performance. It was found that most of the male respondents from upper socio-economic group i.e 54 per cent 50 per cent middle and 30 per cent from lower socio-economic group were in the favour that stress was frequently caused by school performance while in case of female similar result was found that is 50 per cent from upper 42 per cent from middle and 32 per cent from lower socio-economic group were in the favour of the statement. The 48 per cent girl respondents from lower, 34 per cent from middle and 28 per cent from upper socio-economic group were in the favour that stress was always caused by school performance while 38 per cent from middle, 28 per cent from lower and 18 per cent from upper socio-economic group male respondents were in the favour of the statement. It was also found that 42 per cent male from lower, 24 per cent from upper and 21 per cent from middle socio-economic group were in favour that stress was occasionally caused by school performance while 24 per cent female from middle, 22 per cent upper and 20 per cent from lower socio-economic group given the same statement. About no one across the entire socio-economic group was in the favour that stress was rarely or never caused by school performance

Conclusion

It is clear from the result that most of the male from upper and middle socio-economic group and female from upper socio-economic group supported that stress is frequently caused by school performance while girl respondents from lower socio-economic group also supported that stress was always caused by school performance. We can say that male from upper and middle socio-economic group and female from upper and lower socio-economic group are given more pressure to perform academically better. Teenagers often worry about a lot of things like completing school work, projects and reports, studying for an exam, and about the colleges to apply to. Kohn and Fragner(1986) also felt that excessive homework, term papers, examinations and studying for examinations are the most significant factors that cause academic stress.

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