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A s i a n J o u r n a l o f
M u l t i d i m e n s i o n a l
R e s e a r c h
( A J M R )
( D ou b l e B li n d R ef e r e e d & R e vi e w e d I n te r n a ti on a l J ou r n a l )UGC A PPRO VED JO URN AL
EMOTIONAL WELLBEING AND STRESS RELAXANTS FOR
ADOLESCENT STUDENTS WITH ACADEMIC STRESS
V.R. Anurathi*; Dr. M.R. Thilakam**
*Research Scholar,
Department of Resource Management, Avinashilingam Institute for Home science and
Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore & Asst. Professor, Department of Home Science, Anna Adarsh College for Women,
Chennai, INDIA. **Professor,
Department of Resource Management, Avinashilinga Institute for Home science and
Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore, INDIA.
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ABSTRACT
Academic life of a student plays a vital role in building their personality development. Students thrive to pinnacle in education and settle with good employment opportunities. Since educational efficiency is determined through academic performance, fear of poor results can lead to academic stress. There are various forms of academic stress and the symptoms can be psychological, physical and emotional. Students when anxious though appear to be calm, their brain never stops thinking. However, it interrupts their quality of life. Hence students can be trained to manage exam anxiety to enhance their quality of academic life. Therefore, it is necessary to study “Emotional wellbeing and stress relaxers for adolescent students with academic stress”.Purposive sampling technique was adopted among 500 students studying in Higher Secondary schools in Chennai. A structured questionnaire pertaining to the objectives of the study was framed and used. The results analyzed through percentage analysis showed that the students were sometimes angry and this was their predominant emotional symptom of stress. Greater percent of students experienced restlessness followed by feeling of anxiety due to academic stress. The students were sometimes having irritability and frustration respectively. The students experienced depression, pessimistic thoughts and fearfulness. It is also inferred that the students felt helpless and hopeless as the emotional outcome. Some students felt guilty of shame and withdrew from others. Students followed some coping techniques to curb academic
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stress for their academic and personal wellbeing. The results clearly show that the students relaxed by talking with friends, followed by listening to music and got relieved from stress. About half of the students preferred conversing with their parents and relatives while another half of the students got relieved from their stress by sleeping. About half the respondents had the practice of spending time in sharing jokes and having a hearty laugh. It was also evident that nearly less than half of the students stated to watch TV/Movie, to dissipate their stress. Few percent of the students spent time in doing hobby of their choice to relieve from academic stress. Some of the selected students had the practice of doing exercise and were spending time wandering outside as stress relaxant. When students stress coping skills outweigh the symptoms of stress, their wellbeing and quality of life improve appreciably.
KEYWORDS: Academic Stress, Adolescents, Students, Stress Relaxers, Wellbeing.
______________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION:
The modern world which is said to be a world of achievements is also a world of stress. Every moment of our life is affected by our wellbeing in a positive or negative way (Keys and Lopez, 2002). The goal is to balance life with time for work, relaxation, fun and resilience to hold up anxiety and challenges head on (Rao and Mohan, 2014). Education being one of the paramount importances is linked with the survival and progress of the students. Academic performance encompasses only the academic aspects like performance in examinations and related activities (Deshmuk, 2014). The overall performance of the children in the school and their quest for excellence add to their academic stress. The demands that evoke these patterned responses are referred to as stressors and emotions such as love, hate, joy, fear, challenge, anger as well as thoughts call forth the changes characteristics of the stress syndrome (Dupare, 2014). Method of counteracting the harmful effects of the emotional stress is the possibility of regular elicitation of the relaxation response. Stress relaxers aimed at fostering resilience in the life of student are recommended by psychologists. Resilient students would be those who, despite the odds against them, show positive adaptation by achieving appropriate developmental milestones.
OBJECTIVES:
To identify the emotional symptoms among adolescent students arising out of academic stress and
To find out stress relaxers adopted by them for their wellbeing.
METHODOLOGY:
The study sample consisted of 500 students studying in twelfth standard in Chennai city by adopting purposive sampling technique. A questionnaire was used for data collection. The collected data included types of symptoms of emotional stress and methods of stress relaxers followed by adolescent school students for their mental wellbeing. Data was consolidated and subjected to statistical analysis.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION:
The results of the study cover two main aspects namely emotional symptoms among adolescent students arising out of academic stress and stress relaxers they follow for their academic and personal wellbeing.
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Table I reveals the frequency of experiencing emotional symptoms of stress experienced by the students.
TABLE I
FREQUENCY OF EXPERIENCING EMOTIONAL SYMPTOMS