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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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Ramya Raja ¹, K. Arockia Maraichelvi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women University, Coimbatore (T.N.), IN

Abstract

Fear are the most common problem related to sensitivity in children. Many children experience the fear of a particular thing or a particular situation at some point in their development. The change in the fears of children and adolescents with increasing age is expressed by cognitive and social development. The situational fears may not be serious if it occurs occasionally. In a case where the child fails to secure parental support, the situation fear may develop to the point where the child is seriously hampered in social relationships, developing a fear of the unfamiliar that can remain for many years. With this background and the current reality of children being more fearful than the past, this study attempted to evaluate the reliability of situational fear producing factors among children of 4-14 years. The gender and age specific differences were also explored. The present study was conducted among 200 school going children of age 4-14 years, in Coimbatore district through k in 10 sampling technique with certain inclusion criteria. The investigator used five-point rating scale to secure adequate data on situational fears. 't' test statistic was done to appraise the gender specific and age specific differences.The selected three age groups were found to have situational fears at varying degrees. However, the number of significant variations on gender and age was very few, which projects that these variables do not influence the situational fears of children between 4-14 years. An elaborate study has to be undertaken to find out what causes certain other fears to increase in its intensity with increase in age as well the variation in gender.

Keywords

Fears of Children, Adolescents, Situational Fear, Gender, Age Specific Differences.

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