Incidence of Academic Stress and Anxiety A Study on Adolescents in the Twin Cities

ABSTRACT Stress is universal human experience. Stress and strain are experienced bv adolesceiTts, especially students, Tlie study is an attempt to find out the academic stress and anxiet}' among the students in twin cities of Andhra Pradesh. The total sample for the present study was 743 (male=373 and female=370). The Student Academic Stress Scale (1991) developed by Rajendran. R and K.V. Kaliappan and State-Trait Anxiety Scale developed by Charles D. Spielberger (1996) were used to gather the data. A demographic questionnaire developed by the researcher was also used. A quantitative survey method was employed using statistical procedures such as t-test and f-test. Tlie findings ol the study points out that there v\'ere significant influence and difference betv 'een the biographical variables like age, gender, place of living, type of school, medium, t}'pe of syllabus, permanent place of residence, working members in the family, tuitions and income with Academic Stress and State-Trait Anxiety. Based on the findings of tlie study a set of recommendations were formulated.