Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, Online ISSN 2278-8808, SJIF 2021 = 7.380, www.srjis.com PEER REVIEWED & REFEREED JOURNAL, SEPT-OCT, 2022, VOL- 10/73
PEER PRESSURE AND GENDER DETERMINE STRESS AMONG ADOLESCENTS Anu1 and Sanjay kumar2 1
Ph. D. scholar, Department of Psychology, Chaudhary Charan Singh University,
Meerut - 250004 Utterpardesh (India) 2
Professor, Department of Psychology, Chaudhary Charan Singh University,
Meerut – 250004 Utterpardesh (India)
Paper Received On: 25 OCTOBER 2022 Peer Reviewed On: 31 OCTOBER 2022 Published On: 01 NOVEMBER 2022
Abstract Adolescence is a stage of development and multiple changes as well as personal and social changes are experienced in all aspects of individual’s life. The purpose of this research paper was to study the effect of peer pressure on stress of adolescents. For this purpose 120 subjects were selected from Meerut and Modinagar Distt (U.P). There were two groups according the level of peer pressure i.e. high peer pressure and low peer pressure. In each group there were 60 subjects, further each group was again consisted of two groups of gender there were 30 male and 30 female. Peer pressure was measured with the help of peer pressure scale constructed by Singh and Saini (2010) and stress was measured by student stress scale constructed by Akhtar (2011). A 2×2 factorial design was used in the study. On the basis of obtained results it was found that peer pressure have significant effect on stress of adolescents whereas gender has no significant effect on stress of adolescents. The interaction between peer pressure and gender was also found significant. Keywords: Stress, peer pressure, adolescents Scholarly Research Journal's is licensed Based on a work at www.srjis.com
India is a country where more than 60% of the population is under the age of thirty. A major part of this young population belongs to the adolescents group, found in school to learn everything about the world and countries as well as ethical values are practiced in the concerned society. Adolescents is a stage of growing and attain puberty. At this stage so many hormonal changes lead in them new directions of behavior, perception, expectations of self, peer pressure, academic stress, uncertainty and anxiety always cause psychophysical issues among adolescents. In today’s competitive world every adolescent experience one or Copyright © 2022, Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies