An Analytical Study Among Stress Dimension Between Rural and Urban Secondary School Students

The purpose of the present study was to find out the stress dimension between rural and urban secondary school students. A comparative study was conducted 400 secondary school students, classified as 200 rural (100 boys and 100 girls) students and rest of 200 urban (100 boys and 100 girls) students of four different districts of West Bengal. The objective of the study was to find out the different dimension of stress namely, pressure, physical stress, frustration and overall stress between rural and urban students. To measure the different dimension of stress was measured by stress scale which was developed by Lakshmi and Narin was administrated on a selected sample. Descriptive statistic along with ‘t’-test was used to analyze the result of the study. The level of significance was 0.05 levels. Result revealed that there was a significant difference between rural and urban secondary school students on different dimension stress.