A Study on the Problems of Adolescent Students in School

Rajeswari, S; Eljo, J. O. Jeryda Gnanajane

doi:10.15373/22778179/july2014/152

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“…A study by Irshad Ali [11] showed that both adolescent boys and girls have high adjustment problems in various areas like: family, school, social and personal front. There was poor adjustment as age increased, with lower ages scoring low and higher ages more with AISS which was contradicted by the study of Hunshal et al (2007) [12]), while Rajeswari et al (2013) [13] and Emmanuel et al (2013) [14] found no relation with age and adjustment. This poor adjustment as age advances is due to the increase in academic responsibilities and parental pressure and expectations on their children's performance, social responsibilities and role to be played in each stage getting complicated.…”

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Effect of Academic-related Factors on Adjustment Problems in Adolescents

2016

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Background: Adolescence is the period of stressful transition from childhood to adults which provides opportunity to a lot of adjustment problems. This study is intended to assess the mental health in adolescents and their adjustment, using standardised questionnaires. Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive, cross-sectional study involving 175 school students of both genders and of age ranging from 14 to 17. After getting clearance from Institutional ethics committee and consent from the parents, the students were administered a socio-demographic proforma, General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ-28) and Adjustment Inventory for School Students (AISS) by one-to-one interview method. The scores were analysed statistically with Student's independent t test using SPSS 20.0. Results and Discussion: There was significant increase in social dysfunction (p = 0.03) and poor adjustment in all categories (p <0.05) as age advanced. Government school students showed more somatic symptoms (p = 0.03) than the private schools, while private school students showed poor educational adjustment (p = 0.01). Students from English medium had significant social dysfunction when compared to those from Tamil medium (p = 0.03). Day scholars showed poor social dysfunction, while hostellers showed poorer social and overall adjustment. There was correlation between mental health and adjustment with poor mental health leading to poor adjustment. Conclusion: Factors like increasing age, type of school, medium of instruction and type of accommodation is significantly affecting the coping nature of the adjustment related problems.

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Effect of Academic-related Factors on Adjustment Problems in Adolescents

2016

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“…In Pakistan, the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC, 2015) claims that nearly 35,000 children annually drop out of schools due to corporal punishment. This exhibits that many people, including educators, seem to have no information of the negative effect of the punishments on children and society (Munair, 2019;Rajeswari & Jeryda, 2013).…”

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Beating the devil out of them: effects of corporal punishment on school children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Saeed,

Ahmad,

Israr

2023

Lib. Arts Soc. Sci. Int. J.

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This study investigates the impact of corporal punishment on school students in Pakistan. The data was collected through a survey from N=250 students (96 females and 154 males) from government schools (n=109) and madrassas (n=141) in District Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The study found that corporal punishment is rampant (83%) in schools and madrassas. The study reveals male students receiving more punishment and exhibiting higher levels of emotional adjustment, delinquency, and aggression with mean differences with t-value of 248= 4.92, p < .001; 0.87, p < .05; 3.67, p < .000 and 7.89, p < .001 than female students. Schools use more corporal punishment than madrassas, causing higher emotional adjustment for students, indicated by significant mean differences with a t-value of 248= 1.20, p < .003, and 3.18, p < .001. Madrassa students exhibited higher juvenile delinquency and aggression with mean differences with a t-value of 248=1.67, p < .095, and 9.90, p < .000 than school students. The predictor variables showed a positive correlation with the outcome variable (? = .034, t = .530, p < .01) and emotional adjustment (? = .388, t = 6.63, p < .001) for students.

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“…28 Another research reported that adolescents’ emotional adjustment abilities were found to be low. 27 , 29 Sivakumar 30 and Joseph 31 concluded that male and female higher secondary school students have a similar level of emotional adjustment. Literature showed that although men are generally better at handling their emotions, women were also shown to be more capable of adjusting emotionally.…”

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Academic Stress and Emotional Adjustment: A Gender-Based Post-COVID Study

Singh

Sharma

et al. 2022

Annals of Neurosciences

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Background: The worldwide spread of COVID-19 infection and its preventive measures has resulted in global disruption of overall functioning of the individuals. In the post-COVID period, several stressors associated with the pandemic have exacerbated adjustment problems in students and impacted their mental health. Purpose: The study aims to assess the Academic Stress and Emotional Adjustment of male and female secondary school students in Uttar Pradesh, post-COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Methods: A sample of 500 students from various schools in Uttar Pradesh pursuing high school were included in the study. A purposive sampling technique was employed for data collection based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. The Scale for Assessing Academic Stress and the Adolescents Emotional Adjustment Inventory were used to assess the academic stress and emotional adjustment of secondary school students post-COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Results: The results of the study revealed that there was a significant difference in academic stress and emotional adjustment between male and female secondary school students. A significant positive relationship between academic stress and emotional adjustment was found, which indicates a high level of academic stress perpetuates emotional maladjustment. Furthermore, it was found that the level of academic stress and emotional adjustment were higher among females as compared to males. Conclusion: It can be concluded that the extended impact of COVID-19 has led to a surfeited level of distress propounding that females are more predisposed to academic stress and tend to have poor emotional adjustment than their male counterparts.

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A Study on the Problems of Adolescent Students in School

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Beating the devil out of them: effects of corporal punishment on school children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Academic Stress and Emotional Adjustment: A Gender-Based Post-COVID Study

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