Understanding Academic Stress among Adolescents

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Title

Understanding Academic Stress among Adolescents

Description

Any individual who progresses through life goes through various changes and transitions where ‘stress’ becomes invariably part of the journey. Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to the concept of academic stress as the transitions occur at an individual and social level. It, therefore, becomes imperative to understand the sources and impact of academic stress to derive adequate and efficient intervention strategies. This review aims to understand academic stress at a bio psychosocial level highlighting the impact and sources of academic stress. For the literature review, articles were collected from online databases such as EBSCO, ProQuest, Springer, PubMed, Jstor and Google Scholar. The literature search was done using keywords academic stress, academic anxiety, coping, physiological reactions of stress, academic performance, stress and mental health.The prevalence rate of stress varied from 15%-45% in studies conducted after 2000. The review examines stress and its physiological impact, cognitive and social influences, sources of stress detailing Indian findings.

Creator

Reddy, Jayasankara K
Menon, Karishma
Thattil, Anjana

Source

Artha Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 16 No. 1 (2017): Artha Journal of Social Sciences; 39-52
0000-0000
0975-329X

Publisher

Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore

Date

2017-01-01

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Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

Identifier

Citation

Jayasankara Reddy K, Karishma Menon and Anjana Thattil, Understanding Academic Stress among Adolescents, Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, 2017, accessed November 23, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/387

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