A Comparative Study of Stress and Adjustment among Adolescence

Abstract

The present study attempts to understand the relationship between stress and adjustment levels ofadolescents. The study's goals 1) To investigate and contrast how stress affects boys’ and girls’adolescence.2) To investigate and contrast how boys’ and girls’ adolescence differ withadjustment.3) To ascertain how stress and adjustment are related. For the study, 100 teenagersbetween the ages of 14 and 17—50 boys and 50 girls —were selected at randomly. Teenagers’levels of stress and adjustment were measured using the Student Stress Scale and the Hindi Adaptation of Bell’s Adjustment Inventory, which were created by Mohsin and Shamshad, respectively. The “t-value” and correlation were the statistical methods employed for the dataanalysis. The mean adjustment and stress scores of high school boys and girls did not differsignificantly, according to the result.