Academic stress and academic resilience among government and private school students across stream

Pages: 49-55
Pinki and Krishna Duhan (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, I.C. College of Home Science, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana)

Academic stress is mental burden installed onto the student’s brain due to excess and unnecessary load of school
work and high parental expectations. Academic resilience contextualizes the resilience build and redirects an
increased likelihood of educational success despite difficulty, therefore the study was piloted to examine the
relationship academic resilience with academic stress. The study was undertaken in Hisar district of Haryana state in rural and urban area. A list of adolescents studying in arts and science stream from XI and XII class was prepared from govt. and private schools of rural and urban area i.e. 100 from rural area and 100 from urban area from thus making a total sample of 200 adolescents. Academic resilience scale by Mallick and Kaur (2015) was used to assess academic resilience and academic stress scale by Rao (2012) was used to assess academic stress of respondents. The finding elucidates that science stream respondents had higher level of academic stress than arts stream respondents and private school respondents also face more academic stress than govt. school respondents. Significant differences found for both govt. and private and arts and science stream respondents. Results regards to academic resilience unveils that science stream respondents had more academic resilience than their counter parts and academic resilience was significantly and negatively correlated with academic stress .