A Study of Stress Factor and Its Impact on Students Academic Performance at Secondary School Level

摘要

The existing study is entitled “a study of stress factor and its impact on student’s academic performance at secondary level”. The important motives of this study were to explore the stress impact on the students’ academic performance. Stress is the main role in student’s academic performance. The objectives of the study were to, investigate the type of stress links with student’s performance, evaluate the impacts of stress on the academic performances of student’s and differentiate the impacts of stress on the academic performances of male and female student’s. The population of this study consisted of all the secondary school of district Vehari (Burewala, Mailsi and Vehari), Punjab, Pakistan. The total sample size was contained 360 male and female From this population the researcher was taken a sample of (n=12) secondary schools from each tehsil of district Vehari. The researcher was further divided schools into two group (n=6) males and (n=6) female schools. The researcher was taken (n=10) students from each school selected as sample. The researcher was used simple random sampling technique for data collection. Five points Likert scale used in this research. 99% respondents are responding about the factor of stress impact on their academic performance. After collected data, the data were analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. The tool (questionnaire) reliability of the collected data was 0.850 Cronbach alpha. In this study, a different test was applied to factor analysis and regression. Generally, the major findings of study exposed that there is a significant impact of stress on student’s academic performance. The study concluded that major factors of stress is teacher and parents. The study also determined that there is same effect of stress on male and female students.