Abstract

The present study on intelligence and mental stress among students was conducted during 2015-16 at College of Agriculture and College of Agricultural Engineering, University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur. A total of 185 undergraduate and post graduate students were the respondents selected for the study. The expost facto research design was employed in the study. The data was collected from the students personally using a standardized interview schedule developed for the study. The collected data was analyzed using appropriate statistical tools. The results of the study revealed that, more than one third (38.92 %) of the respondents belonged to medium category with respect to socio economic status, equal per cent (35.14 %) of the respondents belonged to medium and low stress categories, forty per cent of the respondents belonged to medium intelligence category. Achievement motivation and education status exhibited positive and significant relation with the intelligence level at 1 per cent level of probability. Education and management orientation exhibited significant and negative relationship with the stress level among the students. Whereas, achievement motivation exhibited negative and significant relationship with stress.

Highlights

  • Sickle cell anaemia is an autosomal recessive, monogenic hereditary haemolytic disorder

  • Sickle cell anemia is an autosomal recessive, monogenic hereditary hemolytic disorder. It is a structural variant of hemoglobin in which a glutamic acid at position 6 of β-polypeptide chain of hemoglobin is replaced by another amino acid, valine (Pauling et al, 1949)

  • Sickle cell anemia disease related studies were searched for different electronic sources from 1950 to 2014, total 64 studies were found related to sickle cell anemia disease and 22 studies were mostly relevant to the present objective

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Introduction

Sickle cell anaemia is an autosomal recessive, monogenic hereditary haemolytic disorder. Jain (1989) has reported after a screening of tribal populations from Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan and out of the total number screened, 110 were normal 44 had sickle cell trait and 6 homozygous sickle cell gene.

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