Parental aspiration and academic stress among adolescents
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2018
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CCSHAU
Abstract
Academic stress is a mental discomfort with respect to some expected frustration related with
academic failure. Parents which serves as first school for the child appears to be an important source of
rising expectation, therefore the study was conducted to examine the relationship of socio-personal
variables, parental aspiration and academic resilience with academic stress. The study was undertaken
in Hisar district of Haryana state in govt. and private schools of Hisar city and Kharkara village on 200
adolescents of arts and science stream. The sample represents equal number of boys and girls ranging
in 16-18 years of age group comprising equal sample size with regards to area of residence and stream
of education. Parental aspiration scale by Grover and Grover (1987) was used to assess perceived
parental aspiration of respondents, academic resilience scale by Mallick and Kaur (2015) was used to
assess academic resilience, mental health inventory by Jagdish and Shrivastva (1983) to assess mental
health and academic stress scale by Rao (2012) was used to assess academic stress of respondents. The
finding elucidates that urban respondents perceived higher parental aspiration and had more academic
resilience than rural respondents. The results further highlighted that female respondents perceived
higher parental aspiration and had low academic resilience than their counterparts. With regards to
mental health, results portray better mental health of urban respondents than rural respondents. Results
further revealed that urban respondents face more academic stress than rural respondents. Results
further pinpointed that ordinal position, occupation of mother, parent’s income and academic resilience
of the respondents was significantly and negative correlated with academic stress. Parental aspiration
and parent’s education was significantly and positively correlated with academic stress.
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