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Academic stress is mental burden installed onto the student's brain due to excess and unnecessary load of school work and high parental expectations. Academic resilience contextualizes the resilience build and redirects an increased likelihood of educational success despite difficulty, therefore the study was piloted to examine the relationship academic resilience with academic stress. The study was undertaken in Hisar district of Haryana state in rural and urban area. A list of adolescents studying in arts and science stream írom XI and XII class was prepared írom govt. and private schools of rural and urban area i.e. 100 from rural area and 100 from urban area from thus making a total sample of 200 adolescents. Academic resilience scale by Mallick and Kaur (2015) was used to assess academic resilience and academic stress scale by Rao (2012) was used to assess academic stress of respondents. The finding elucidates that science stream respondents had higher level of academic stress than arts stream respondents and private school respondents also face more academic stress than govt. school respondents. Significant differences found for both govt. and private and arts and science stream respondents. Results regards to academic resilience unveils that science stream respondents had more academic resilience than their counter parts and academic resilience was significantly and negatively correlated with academic stress.
Keywords: academic stress, academic resilience, educational success, rural and urban area
The World Health Organisation (2015) defines adolescence as "the period in human growth and development that occurs after childhood and before adulthood" and reflects this to be the period between the ages of 10 years to 19 years of age. Adolescents aged from 10-19 report for approximately 17percent of the world's population (WHO, 2015).
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