Academic Career Development Stress and Mental Health of Higher Secondary Students- an Indian Perspective

Abstract

The authors explored the mental health of students with their academic career-related stressors collecting data from 400 students of different schools of Eastern part of India by using; namely GIS, theGeneral Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and theAcademic Career Development Stress Scale. The data was subjected to t tests and ANOVA. Results indicated (i) academic career development stress along with its ten components reveal dissimilarities with respect to gender and streams of study, (ii) significant relationship were indicated between the mental health status of students and various aspects of academic stress and demographic factors, (iii) qualitative analyses highlighted the complex of association among academic stress, mental health and other variables.