AN ANALYSIS OF STRESS LEVEL OF SENIOR SECONDARY STUDENTS OF DIFFERENT STREAMS AND ITS MANAGING STRATEGIES

This paper examines the level of stress among senior secondary school students and stress managing strategies to overcome stress. Manage appropriate level of stress among students in order to make him constructive and productive citizen of the country. The main objectives were to find out the stress level among different streams of students as well as bring to light measures to counteract the effect of stress in students. A quantitative method was used in gathering and analyzing the data. For this purpose, Singh's personal stress sources inventory (SPSSI) was distributed among students of different streams to get mean, S.D. and C.R. values. The results obtained show the medium level of stress among different streams of students. Factors responsible for stress are school environment, physical changes, relationship and family conditions. Major findings are : (i) no significant difference in stress level of male and female students of different streams (ii) significant difference in stress level of male students of different streams. (iii) significant difference exists in stress level of female students of different streams. (iv) urban students have more stress level than rural students. (v) students studying in private school experience more stress level than government school students. Stress can be managed by enough sleep, creative games, meditation, yoga, spiritual talk, continuous monitoring the stress level, creating conducing teaching learning environment at school as well as at home and developing good relationship among peers.