Abstract
Academic stress among students have long been researched by several investigators and they have identified stressors as too many assignments, competition with other students, failures, lack of pocket money (Fairbrotherand Warn, 2003) and poor relationships with other students or lecturers and , family problems at home. Institutional level stresses are overcrowded lecture halls (Ongori, 2007; Awino &Agolla, 2008), semester system, and inadequate resources to perform academic work. Stress and its manifestations, such as anxiety, depression, and burnout, have always were as a common problem among people in different professions and occupations. In the last few decades, alarm has already been provoked by the proliferation of books, research reports, popular articles and the growing number of organized workshops, aiming to teach people how to cope with this phenomenon. The purpose of the study is to find out the level of academic stress among B.T.C.Students. The present study consists of 200 B.T.C. Students studying in Government and private teacher training colleges situated in Rohtak District of Haryana, India. The sample was selected by using simple random sampling technique. The present study reveals that the male student's academic stress is higher than female students. The urban student's academic stress is higher than rural student. The Government school student’s academic stress is less than private school student.
Keywords
- Academic stress
- B.T.C. Students
- Male/Female
- Urban/Rural
- Government /Private
How to cite
Chaudhary .Garima (2017). Study on Academic Stress among B.T.C.Students of Rohtak District of Haryana. IPEM JOURNAL OF INNOVATION IN TEACHER EDUCATION, 7(1), 23-28.