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@article{189242,
        author = {Cyma Anjum and Vibha Kumari},
        title = {Academic Stress in Senior Secondary School Students in the Social and Gender Perspective},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {7},
        pages = {5349-5355},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=189242},
        abstract = {Academic stress among Senior Secondary students has been a topic of interest for many years. And when Social and gender perspective add to it, there is a need of exploration to its challenge. Thus, the current study aims at analyzing the social and gender difference on academic stress among the boys and girls of +2 class in different Senior Secondary Schools of Bihar (N= 200) within the age group of 16 to 18. BalajiRao Academic Stress Scale (2008) was used for assessing the academic stress. This test material consist 40 items & stress was measured on a 5-point scale. The analysis of data was made by using descriptive and correlational analysis. The results revealed that the boys’ students are having higher academic stress than their girls’ students’ counterparts, which can be interpreted on the basis of modernization, complex social situation, undue expiration, on the basis of differential social milieu, future settlement perspectives and parental demands. To explain about social perspective urban students are having more academic stress than the rural students. The results can be due to development of coping skills, self-confidence and Self-management in differential social backgrounds. These findings may have implications for the conservation of personal resources as well as for stress management interventions through orientation, training, counseling, and guidance to foster coping skills in their academic endeavor.},
        keywords = {Academic stress, Gender perspective, & Coping skill.},
        month = {December},
        }