Academic Stress and Socio-emotional School Climate: A Study of Secondary School Students

Abstract

Academic stress is a serious problem among secondary school students because they have lots of stress from their school climate. Teachers do not try to understand their problems. School administrations set highest targets for students. This study focused on the relationship between academic stress and socio-emotional school climate among secondary school students and differences in groups. The researcher conceded out the sample of 400 male and female students of government and private schools from state Punjab district Gurdaspur. Coefficient of correlation was used to check the relationship between both the variables and t-test for differences in groups by the researcher. The results revealed that there exists negative correlation between academic stress and socio-emotional school climate. It showed that if school environment is good then students will not have academic stress but if school climate is not good then students will have academic stress. The results also revealed that (i) female students take more academic stress than male students; (ii) private school students have more academic stress than government school students; (iii) government schools have more favourable socio-emotional school climate than private schools.