IAHRW International Journal of Social Sciences Review

Anju Nagaur ¹, Pallavi Bhatnagar ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, IN

Abstract

Stress is an appraisal of one's resources to cope up with the challenging situations and places a limit on one's capacity to face the situation efficiently. The stressful condition occurs when demands exceed the available resources. The same happens during the phase of adolescence. The adolescents face the turbulence of growing up stresses along with pressures of performance, cut throat competition, experiencing frustrations and conflicts of everyday life in relational world. For adolescents who are living in difficult circumstances, the level of stress only escalates to harmful extent having an adverse effect on their physical as well as mental health. The present study is an attempt to explore the stress level among adolescents of rural and urban area of Bakshi-ka-talab, Nishatganj, and Chowk area of Lucknow. The total sample was of 400 adolescents of government schools in age range 14 to 18 years, equally divided into rural and urban school's students. Anxiety Depression Stress Scale (Bhatnagar et al., 2011) was administered on them. The present research paper addresses the scores on stress scale only. The CR value has been calculated to find out locale (rural & urban) and gender difference. The findings indicated that rural adolescents are high on stress level as well as female adolescents were found to be stressed as compared to their male counterparts irrespective of area.

Keywords

Stress, Anxity, Depression, Mental Health, Government School.

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Sonu Bharti ¹, Pallavi Bhatnagar ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, IN

Abstract

Depression is the most common mental disorder in the world. It not only reduces the quality of life but also is potential cause for predisposing the person for various physical, as well as, mental health problems. Though depression has been empirically studied by mental health professionals, however these studies have an over representation of the urban and educated population. India's 72.2 % population is residing in rural area, hence it is important to study them. People living below poverty line are under represented on empirical researches for their well being and mental health issues. India's 25.70% rural population is BPL, It is important to explore the mental health status of rural BPL groups who are by and large underprivileged and disadvantaged. The present study is an attempt to explore the depression of farm labour. The sample comprised of 200 farm labour of Lebrua village of Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh. Depression has been assessed by the depression sub scale of ADSS (Bhatnagar et al., 2011). The result clearly indicates gender differences, with females reporting higher depression as compared to their counterparts.

Keywords

Depression, Farm Labour, Below Poverty Line.

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