Introduction: Stress is the response of the body or mind’s reaction to either internal or external stimuli. Stress causes modifications to almost every biological system, which affects how people conduct themselves and their emotions. Stress has drawn increasing attention from students in the modern day. Adolescent boys and girls experience stress on an on-going and natural basis. Youth suffer anxiety at some point in their lives, whether it is related to their daily lives, careers, education or different issues.Objective: The purpose of the study to observe the stress level among yoga practitioners, gymnasts and sedentary adolescent girls. Method: In the present survey study, total 150 female students were selected from Hooghly, Howrah, Nadia and Kolkata district. Selected students were from three different groups i.e -yoga group(n=50), gymnastics group(n=50) and sedentary group(n=50) and the age ranged between 14-17 years. Stress level of adolescent girls was measured by Stress Scale questionnaire which was developed by Dr. Vijaya Lakshmi and Dr. Shruti Narain. The questionnaire has four dimensions i.e- Pressure, Physical Stress, Anxiety and Frustration and each dimension categorized into low, moderate and high level of stress.Results and Conclusions: Descriptive statistics were used for the result of the study. On the basis of result following conclusions are drawn –(i) Most yogic practitioners fall into the low level of stress than gymnastics and sedentary, (ii) Yogic practice and gymnastics both activities help to reduce stress among adolescent girls.
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Bhar et al. (2024) studied this question.