ACADEMIC STRESS AND COPING SKILLS AMONG STUDENTS FOR BETTER ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

The world is becoming more and more competitive day by day. Quality of performance has become the key factor for personal progress Quality of performance has become the key factor for personal progress. Parents desire that their children climb the ladder of performance to as high a level as possible. This desire for a high level of achievement puts a lot of pressure on students, teachers, school management and in general the education system itself. Academic achievement is an attained ability or degree of competence in school task, usually measured by standardized tests and expressed in grades or units based on norms derived from a vide sampling of pupils’ performance. Studies reveal that even low or moderate levels of stress can interfere with task performance. Cognitive reactions of stress result in the inability to concentrate. Excessive stress hampers students’ performance at all levels of education leading to physical, psychological, sociological imbalance. In the vicious circle of this stress a light of coping strategies should be predicted & exercised. This paper potentially predicts academic related stress on students. In particular, the relationships among the coping strategies used by students, social support, the parenting style used by students’ mothers and fathers, students’ experience of anxiety, and academic-related stress are examined. Keywords: Academic Performance, Academic Stress, Coping Skills.