EXPECTATIONS OF ADOLESCENT STUDENTS FROM THEIR PARENTS AND TEACHERS AND THEIR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN RELATION TO STRESS

The present study is an attempt to study the expectations of adolescent students from their parents and teachers and academic achievement in relation to their stress among male and female adolescent students. For this a sample of 800 adolescent students was drawn from schools and colleges of Jalandhar city through multistage random sampling. For data collection scale for stress was adopted from Bisht Battery was used. Scales of expectations from parents and teachers were prepared by the investigator. The obtained data were analyzed with the help of Two Way Analysis Of Variance. The data revealed that there is no significant difference between the expectations of adolescent boys of 9 thclass and 1st year class with high stressand low stress from their parents an teachers. Similar in the case ofadolescentsgirls of 9th class and 1st year class with high and low stress, they also expects same from their parents and teachers. The data also revealed that the low stressed group of adolescent boys' academic achievement is higher than high stressed group of adolescent boys. It also revealed that academic achievement of low stressed group of adolescent girls is higher than the academic achievement of high stressed group of adolescent girls.