Volume 8 : Issue 3 (2021)

A Study of Anxiety, Depression and Stress among Higher Secondary School Students

In today's highly competitive world, students face various academic problems including exam stress, disinterest in attending classes and inability to understand the subject.At school there is anarray of academic pressure derived from a need for perfection, worry over grades, parental pressure, competition, sports and class load.Higher secondary students are vulnerable towards the social environment, including the interactions, social support, social crisis, economic, social mobilization, communityapproach, the virtual environmentsuch as using the internet and other social media. The pressure faced by the students results in many stressful situations leading to anxiety and depression. This paper aims to study anxiety, depression and stress among higher secondary school students. The objective of the study was to know the level of anxiety, depression and stress among students of higher secondary students. The study also aims to study anxiety, depression and stress among students of higher secondary school with respect to gender. The sample of the study were 50 students of class XI and XII of Bhopal city. The data was analyzed using percentage, mean, SD and t-test. The findings of the study reveal that there are very few students from the selected sample who were suffering from severe anxiety, depression and stress. The effect of gender was not significant in terms of anxiety and depression whereas significant difference was found in terms of stress among male and female students of higher secondary school.

Anxiety, Depression, Stress among Higher Secondary School

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