Resilience and Stress Coping in school Students Under Continuous Academic Pressure

Abstract

All students face stress at some point during school, whether through pressure to do well in a class or through experiencing unpleasant interactions with other students or teachers. Studies of coping and resilience have examined how students respond to stress and succeed in spite of risk factors. Although coping and resilience are related constructs, they are distinct in that coping refers to a wide set of skills and purposeful responses to stress, whereas resilience refers to positive adaptation in response to serious adversity. A sample of 30 adolescent students in the age 12 to 17 years were taken. Standardized scales were used to measure resilience, coping stress and academic pressure. The result found out that there is negative significant relationship between stress coping and academic stress. Strategies such as Journalizing, mindfulness & other self-care strategies need to be incorporated to help the students of all age groups to Mental cope better.