Stress Level and Coping Strategies of Secondary School Students: A Case Study of Kupwara District of Jammu and Kashmir

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This research article aims at studying the stress level and coping strategies among the students of physical education and science students in secondary schools of Kashmir valley. A sample size of 70 students have been taken from the secondary school of Kupwara district in kashmir valley. Among the sample size 40 boys and 30 girls have been selected randomly. This study tries to cover the stress scores due to frustration and inhibition, Aggressive behaviour, overload and compulsion. A well-developed questionnaire has been framed with the help of experts in order to get the desired result. Data has been analyzed with the help of SPSS 17 version. (ANNOVA) Analysis of variance has been used which shows that stress among girls remains higher as compared to boys were the stress level has been found significantly lower. The study found that the coping strategy among girls of physical education is higher as compared to boys. The study found that physical education girls possess higher coping strategy than Science boys and girls. Therefore, it can be concluded that the students belonging to physical education had better coping strategy as compared to science students.

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