Exploring the impact of Academic Stress on the Adjustment Patterns of Adolescent Students

It is believed that the youth class, particularly adolescents, have the greatest impact on society in this unending pursuit of progress, prosperity, and perfection. In this relentless pursuit of progress and prosperity, the young generation has to face the challenges of modern lightning technology, and if they fail to establish rapport with the fast pace of development, the risk of academic stress arises that is detrimental for their academic performance. Against this backdrop, adolescents from a variety of socio-cultural backgrounds are educated and trained to develop a health pattern adjustment to achieve the ultimate goal of a civilised society. Given this background, the current study tries to find out whether academic stress has any significant impact on adjustment patterns of adolescent students. The study was conducted on a sample of 200 adolescent students of Siwan district, Bihar, consisting of 100 male and the remaining half female adolescent students drawn from different public and private schools. For the assessment of the pattern of adjustment, the Mohsin-Shamshad Adaptation (Hindi) of the Bell Adjustment Inventory (1934) was applied. The level of academic stress was measured with the help of the Scale of Academic Stress (SAS) developed and standardised by Kim (1970) and adapted to Indian conditions by Rajendran & Kaliappan (1990) and Rao (2012). A significant difference was found in the level of stress between private and government school students. A significant relationship between patterns of adjustment and academic stress of adolescents has been found.