OPEN ACCESS
PEER-REVIEWED
Research Study – Published: June 12, 2016
A Study on Stress Coping Strategies and Emotional Stability among High School Students.
Mandal, R. R., & Josephine, S. A. E.
ABSTRACT
Stress is a typical physical response to events that make us feel threatened or upset our balance in some
way.
Managing stress is all about taking charge: taking charge of our thoughts, emotions, environment, and the
way we
deal with problems. We can reduce stress in life by nurturing our life. The present study is a study on
stress
coping strategies and emotional stability among high school students of Chennai District. The research was
of
survey type, which consists of purposive sampling of 200 high school students of Chennai City. The
researcher used
self-made questionnaire for Stress coping strategies and the standardized tool for Emotional stability
(Goldberg, 1999)
were administrated to the sample selected. The interpretation of data was done with the statistical methods
mean,
standard deviation, t-test and Chi-Square. It was found that there is significant association between Stress
Coping
Strategies and emotional stability among high school students.
Keywords: stress coping strategies, emotional stability, high school students, mental health,
academic performance, adolescent behaviour, student wellbeing
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction
in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite this article: Mandal, R. R., & Josephine, S. A. E. (2016). A Study on Stress Coping
Strategies
and Emotional Stability among High School Students. Indian Educational Researcher, 9(1), 18–27.
Received: March 7, 2016;
Revision Received: April 6, 2016;
Accepted: June 12, 2016.
Responding Author: Mandal, R. R. @ ritamajee@gmail.com
Article Overview: ISSN: 0974-2123 |
Downloads: 0 |
Views: 0
Published in Volume 9, Issue 1, January – June, 2016