Academic Stress and Self-Confidence among Rural Adolescents
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2021
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MPUAT, Udaipur
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Due to COVID 19, there is a transition in educational mode from offline to online learning, which is likely to increase academic stress among adolescents, particularly in rural areas due to internet divine. Academic stress is defined as the anxiety and stress that arises from schooling and education, therefore the study was examined to assess the academic stress, self-confidence and relationship of academic stress with self-confidence. Stress as an unpleasant state of emotional and physiological arousal that individuals experience in situations that they perceive as dangerous or threatening to their well-being. Mental health issues can significantly impair students’ academic success and social interactions affecting their future career and personal opportunities. Lack of self-confidence, somatization disorders, suicide ideation, and negative sense of self are the situations that are derived from academic stress. The current study was conducted to assess the academic stress and self-confidence of rural adolescents. For this purpose total sample size of 180 (90 boys and 90 girls) rural adolescents (16-18 year) were randomly selected from four villages of Udaipur district, having Senior Secondary schools Modified Academic Stress Scale developed by Rao (2012) was used to assess academic stress. Self-confidence inventory (Agnihotri 1985) modified by Nagda and Audichya (2013) was used to assess self-confidence. Percentage, mean score , standard deviation ,correlation and Z test were used for the analysis of data. The major findings revealed that adolescents have high to moderate academic stress and average to poor self-confidence. Girls were reported having somewhat higher academic stress and lower self-confidence than boys . The findings unveiled a strong and inverse relationship between respondents' academic stress and self-confidence. Further study outcomes indicated that the parental education and employment, as well as annual family income, were substantially related to academic stress and respondents' self-confidence
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Academic Stress and Self-Confidence among Rural Adolescents
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Sheetal and Audichya S.