Gender Differences in Academic Stress, Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence among Students

The present study examined gender differences in academic stress, mindfulness and emotional intelligence among students. The sample was comprised of 400 students (200 boys and 200 girls) studying at senior secondary school level. The data was collected from govt and private school of district Rohtak, Haryana. Student Academic Stress Scale (SASS) by Busari, Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS; by Brown and Ryan (2003) and Emotional Intelligence scale developed by Singh and Chadha (2001) were used to asses academic stress, mindfulness and emotional intelligence among students. t-test was used to analyze the results. The findings indicated that there was no significant gender difference in academic stress, however, significant gender difference was found in emotional intelligence and mindfulness.