Stress among the Higher Secondary School Students – A Mixed Methodological Approach

Abstract :

The twenty first century, which is held to be a world of competence, is also a world of stress. One finds stress all over the place, whether it is within the family, school or any other social, economic and cultural activity. Stress is a theme which is hard to avoid. The term is discussed not only in our dialogue but has developed into adequate of a community issues to draw extensive media interest. Stress is divergent as troubles, strains, anxiety and uncertainties. Everyone has had it or has it in one point in their secondary school life. The level of stress on students in the learning process is undeniable. This is because of all the human factors in the learning structure, the students engage the input situation and it is only from beginning to end them that the eventual progression. Stress is believed to be caused by various problems that exist such as problems in physical/mental, financial problems, family problems and problems in their surroundings. Now, teenagers have lots of strength, potentiality and challenges, because of the new technology. Secondary education is the crucial stage which prepares the students for the world of work or to higher education’s the secondary education is period of stress. This study was designed as a concurrent embedded mixed methods study (Creswell, 2007) in order to examine the stress among the higher secondary school students. Although the both quantitative and qualitative data were collected at the same time, the qualitative data is embedded into the quantitative data and so the priority of the mixed method study was given to the quantitative phase. The motivation for using mixed methods in this study is that utilizing qualitative research assisted in the interpretation of the quantitative findings. Study was conducted on 60 adolescents studying in Aided schools of Kerala. The explanatory case study was undertaken to incorporate the relationships (Sasa Baskarada 2013). The case studies revealed that students have sufficient stress .DAS Scale was used for data collection. The data was analyzed using percentage, mean, standard deviation and t-value. The results indicate that majority of (78.3%) respondents were in high level of stress.

Author Name : Shincy Francis, M & Dr.D.Nirmala

Keywords: Stress, Secondary Students and Human factors.


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