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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STRESS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF SCHOOL STUDENTS

Dr. Anshu Chauhan

Volume: 4 Issue: 4 2014

Abstract:

The present study was conducted to compare the boys and girls school students on the variables stress and psychological well-being For this purpose, a sample of 100 students (50 boys and 50 girls) and aged between 14-17 years was Purposively selected from different schools of Agra city. The survey technique was adopted. For the measurement of stress, Stressful Life Event Scale developed by G. Venkatesh Kumar,(1995) was employed and for psychological well-being, Ryff's Psychological Well-being Scale developed by Ryff and Singer (1998) was used. For statistical analysis, mean, standard deviation and t-test were employed. The findings of the study show that there is a significant difference between boys and girls school students with regards to stress and psychological well-being.

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