Abstract
The basic aim of present investigation is that to study the influence of role of medium in the development of child’s personality by academic stress and adjustment scales. Present study was undertaken to examine the level of academic stress and adjustment among Gujarati medium and English Medium School Students. For that purpose 120 students of class IX and X were selected randomly from different schools out of which 60 were taken from Gujarati medium school and the remaining 60 were taken from English Medium School. Abha Rani Bisht (BBS) scale for measuring academic stress was used to see the level of stress and Sinha and Singh Adjustment Inventory for school students was used to examine level of adjustment among the students. The data were analyzed by ‘t’ test and ANOVA were applied to check the difference in significance between the entire two mediums of instruction. The main and internal effect has been discussed. Results indicated that level of academic stress was significantly higher among the English Medium school students where as Gujarati medium school students were significantly better in terms of their level of adjustment. The Medium of Mother tongue per both boys and girls adjustment level are high and academic stress level low than other medium of instruction at school level.
Highlights
Language is an important factor in an interpersonal relationship. (Ganguly 1996) Language is viewed to be an instrument for social interaction it engaged people in the net work of an activity which yields data for social scientists to study the contours of social conduct of the individual to speak it
From the results given in table 1, it appeared that magnitude of academic stress among high school students was found to be high among the English medium school students as the mean scores were 63.37 and 52.97 respectively for English medium school and Gujarati medium school students
Results given in table II, Indicating the level of overall adjustment among school students revealed that overall adjustment of English medium school students was more poor than the Gujarati medium school students as the mean scores for adjustment were found to be 22.47 and 15.98 respectively for the English and Gujarati medium school students
Summary
Language is an important factor in an interpersonal relationship. (Ganguly 1996) Language is viewed to be an instrument for social interaction it engaged people in the net work of an activity which yields data for social scientists to study the contours of social conduct of the individual to speak it. A Study of Academic Stress and Adjustment among Gujarati and English Medium School Students Level of academic stress among English medium school students will be significantly higher than the Gujarati medium school students of both sexes. 2. Adjustment level of English medium school students will be significantly different from Gujarati medium school students of both sexes.
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