ACADEMIC STRESS OF BOARDING AND NON-BOARDING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN DIMA HASAO DISTRICT OF ASSAM
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2019-07
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AAU, Jorhat
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One has to undergo various challenges as they progress in their life, where stress becomes a common part. Today, stress is not only limited to adults or elderly people but even school going students are vulnerable to the concept of academic stress. It, therefore, becomes important to analyze the prevailing academic stress among students and understand them. With this background the present study entitled, “Academic stress of boarding and non-boarding high school students in Dima Hasao district of Assam” was undertaken during the calendar year 2017-2019. The study was conducted to find out the level of academic stress among high school students and to see the differences of boarding and non-boarding high school students in terms of academic stress. In addition to it, finding out the association between academic stress and demographic variables was also included in the objectives. A total of 104 high school students from Class IX and X were selected randomly as samples from seven schools. Both the boarding and non-boarding school students were selected equally for the study. A self-constructed questionnaire was prepared to elicit background information and academic stress of both the boarding and non-boarding school students. The collected data were coded and analyzed with the help of excel and SPSS. The findings from the present study revealed that majority of the high school students had average level of academic stress. The students were more directed towards average level of academic stress followed by high level of academic stress. However, it was found that there exist significant differences in the academic stress of boarding and non-boarding school students. It was found that the students with high level of academic stress was more among boarding school students as compared to non-boarding school students. The number of students with low level of academic stress was more among the non-boarding school students than those of boarding school students. It was also found that there is significant association between academic stress of high school students in relation to educational qualification of mothers and annual income of family.
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