Academic stress, social well-being and resilience among tenth standard students with mental health issues

Abstract

The aim was to study academic stress, social well-being and resilience among tenth standard students with mental health issues and without mental health issues. The objective was to study the difference in academic stress, social well-being and resilience between tenth standard students with mental health issues and without mental health issues. The sample consisted of boys and girls pursuing tenth standard in government and private schools, aged between 15 and 17 years. A between group design with purposive sample was opted for the study. The tenth standard school students were administered The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire to screen for students inclined towards behavioural and emotional issues. Those students with the score ranging between 20 and 40 were considered as students with mental health issues. Those students with the score ranging between 0 and 15 were considered as students without mental health issues. These students were further administered the Academic Stress Scale, Social Well-Being Scale and Resilience Measure. ‘t’ test was computed to study the significant difference in the mean scores on the Academic Stress Scale, Social Well-Being Scale and Resilience Measure among tenth standard students with mental health issues and without mental health issues. The results indicated that the academic Stress was significantly higher for students with mental health issues, whereas social well-being and resilience were significantly lower for students with mental health issues.