Academic stress among adolescents: Factors and roles

Pages: 228-231
Prabhjot Guron (Sai Nath University, Ranchi, Jharkhand)
Taruna Malhotra (Vaish College of Education, Rohtak)

Anything that discourages, decreases confidence or creates inhibitions among children can be termed as stress which can be caused by academics, interactions, fear of under achievement and rejection of thoughts and ideas and lack of motivation and encouragement. It becomes very prominent among adolescents when they are undergoing changes or conversely are undergoing lack of changes and purpose. Anybody can define stress among adolescents in a layman language almost quite accurately whereas in this Paper we actually try to understand stress as a study of psychology among adolescents, the factors which create it and the Role of interacting individuals which contribute to its increase, decrease and control.