A Study on Academic Stress among D. El. Ed. Students of Ghaziabad District

Academic stress among students have long been researched by several investigators and they have identified stressors as too many assignments, competition with other students, failures, lack of pocket money (Fairbrother and Warn, 2003), and poor relationships with other students or lecturers and family problems at horn. Institutional level stresses are overcrowded lecture halls (Ongori, 2007; Awino and Agolla, 2008), semester system, and inadequate resources to perform academic work. Stress and its manifestations, such as anxiety depression, and burnout, are always a common problem among people in different professions and occupations. In the last few decades, alarm has already been provoked by the proliferation of books, research reports, popular articles, and the growing number of organized workshops, aiming to teach people how to cope with this phenomenon. The purpose of the study is to find out the level of academic stress among D. El. Ed. Students. The present study consists of 200 D. El. Ed. Students studying in Government and private teach training colleges situated in District of Ghaziabad, India. The sample was selected by using sin random sampling technique. The present study reveals that the male students ’academic stress is higher than the female students. The urban students ’academic stress is higher than the rural student. The Government students ’academic stress is less than private school students.