Stress management practices adopted by senior secondary students

Stress is the emotional and physical strain caused by our response to present from the outside world. Stress is a part of today living. In our daily lives we are often exposed to situations that produce stress. However if our stress level is too high it can result in serious medical and social problems. Any event or Stress at work resulting from increasing complexities of work and its divergent demand has become a prominent and pervading feature of the modern organization. Stress as opined by Robinson (2007) is a pressure of adverse influence, circumstance that disturbs the natural physiological balance of the body. The research entitled Study of stress management practices adopted by senior secondary students was formulated with the objective to study the stress management strategies adopted by the students. The sample consisted of 100 class 12th female students studying in Saraswati Vidyamandir, Lakhimpur Kheri (U.P). The tool used for the study was a self structured stress scale consisting items on stress management practices. The result was analyzed on the basis of frequency and percentage. The study concluded that most of students were found using physical exercise like; yoga, walk, sports and dance for reducing the stress level. Some of them were also found taking help of meditation, listening to music, talking to others and drawing and painting. All of them accepted that crying helps them to become stress free.