A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF ACADEMIC STRESS AMONG HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS

Background: Working quickly, solving challenging tasks, or hearing someone yell at us can cause stress. It might be caused by disagreements, making difficult choices, or putting other demands on one's talents. It can also exist due to various social demands on one's time. Whether they are good feelings like pleasure or negative ones like dread, emotions tend to pass quickly. However, these conditions can occasionally last for extended periods or reach abnormally high levels. When this occurs, the outcome is "stress," which manifests both psychologically and physically. People in many professions and jobs have long experienced stress and its effects, such as anxiety, depression, and burnout. The profusion of books, research studies, and popular articles and the rise in workshops designed to help individuals deal with this situation has caused worry in recent decades. The study aims to determine Objective: how stressed higher secondary pupils are about academics. One hundred fifty students in the XI grade from upper secondary institutions in Bhagalpur, Bihar, India, are participating in the current study. Simple random sampling techniques were used to pick the sample Method: . The present study results show that upper-secondary students experience moderate levels of academic stress across all subsamples. Result:Academic focus is more significant for male students with an urban background in private schools than female students with a rural background in government schools. Conclusion: Pupils' Academic stress is more important for urban students than for rural students. Curriculum plays a significant role in academic focus; students studying science have more academic pressure than those arts.