Academic Stress and Achievement Motivation among Adolescents

The present research paper was undertaken to examine the level of academic stress and overall achievement motivation among science and social science adolescents and their interrelationship. For that purpose, 100 adolescents of class XII were selected randomly from Senior Secondary School (boys) Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. Among them 50 adolescents were from science stream and 50 were from social science stream. Student Stress Scale and Achievement Motivation Scale were used for measuring academic stress and achievement motivation of adolescents respectively. Results indicated that stressful worries and overall academic stress were significantly higher among science adolescents than in social science adolescents. Stressful worries were the significant predictors of achievement motivation among science adolescents whereas poor administration and inadequate academic environment in college were significant predictor of achievement motivation among social science adolescents.