Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Bani Lekha Phukan ¹, K. Arockia Maraichelvi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, IN

Abstract

The preexisting stressful situations of the school children take up a higher altitude while they face the competitive public exams of the Indian system of education. This critical situation gets worsened with the high and unrealistic expectations of the society in general and parents in particular, and the failure of coping mechanisms among teachers dealing with these children. So the proposed study doles out with the rationale of employing School Stress Inoculation Training Programme on a preventative basts to inoculate school children, their parents and teachers to current/future stressors and investigate its effect on stress coping repertoires and the well being of the school children. The Stress Inoculation Training (SIT) approach is designed to impart skills to enhance their resistance to stress and practice a repertoire of coping skills augmenting the capability to respond effectively in the present and future stressful situations. The key objective of the study is to prepare students, teachers and parents to respond more favorably to negative stress events by training them on effective coping skills even before stress exposure and assess its efficacy over the wellbeing and performance of school children.

Keywords

School Children Stress, Stress Inoculation Training, Stress Resistance Skills, Coping Augmentation Skills.

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Arockia Maraichelvi ¹, Bani Lekha Phukan ¹, M. Karthika ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore , Tamilnadu, IN

Abstract

Stress level among Indian school children is high especially before getting into high school (i.e.) before their public exams. The objectives were to Appraise the perceived stress level of school children and identify its institution - specific differences,and to measure the stress level of the parents of the selected children and find out its association with the stress level of their children. The 8th standard students (N=128) and their parents (T=128) of a school under private management (nl=76 and tl=76) and a school run by government (n2=53 and 12=52) in the district of Coimbatore, formed the sample for the study. A checklist was framed to assess the stress level of the selected school children. A parental stress scale with 5 point rating was also formulated. The study was conducted and the data elicited were subjected to statistical analysts. The study indicates higher stress among government school children when compared to private school children. The parental stress does not affect the stress level of parents. The innfluence of other variables are also discussed.

Keywords

Student Stress, Parental Stress, Private and Government School.

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