Stress of Secondary School Students with Respect to Gender and Emotional Intelligence

ABSTRACT The present research work was specifically undertaken to study the stress of secondary school students with respect to their gender and emotional intelligence. Survey technique under descriptive method of research was adopted in this present investigation. By employing convenient sampling technique a sample of 1100 secondary school students were selected from four district of Himachal Pradesh. Students Stress Scale by Akhtar (2011) and Emotional Intelligence Scale by Singh and Narain (2014) were used to collect data for the present study. The collected data were analyzed by employing Analysis of Variance (Two way). The major findings of the study revealed that male and female secondary school students possessed similar level of stress. The secondary school students possessing different level of emotional intelligence did not differ significantly from each other with regard to their stress. Further, it also indicated that gender and emotional intelligence do not interact significantly with respect to stress of secondary school students. Therefore, it may be interpreted that the gender and emotional intelligence taken together did not affected stress of secondary school student significantly. Towards the end of the paper major findings, discussion on the results and implications of the findings of the investigation have been discussed in detail. Keywords: Stress, Gender and Emotional Intelligence