• MINARAM GOGOI
• Professor Jayadeba Sahoo

Education is as deep as the life itself and as broad as the world of our experiences. It touches our life at every point, guides and directs our thought, feeling and activity at every moment. From analysis of derivative meaning education appear that education is an act of development from within. Education is described as an influence through which we can bring about desirable changes in our behaviour and activity. We use to train and educate ourselves with a definite aim or purpose for achievement. Achievement is related with the aim of establishing in society as a productive member. Now the age is the competitive age. In every walk of life, students can face with competitions. For this act mental pressure is increase in student life due to increase the competition in the field of education. There are various causes behind the academic performance. Some of these are positive and negative factors which are affected the students in his academic performance. Physical and mental fitness of a student is the most important factors for academic performance. In present days mental stress is increase day by day among the students. So happiness through the joyful learning is decrease. This survey carried out to identify the relationship between academic stress and achievement motivation among girls and boys students. Two hundred students (100 boys and 100 girls) were selected randomly from class-X for this study. The students answered the same questionnaire including Scale for Assessing Academic Stress (SAAS) developed by Sinha, Sharma and Nepal in 2002 and Academic Achievement Motivation Inventory (AAMI) developed by Muthee J.M. and Immanuel Thomas (2009). Pearson correlation coefficient test and independent T-test were used to analyze the data. Results showed that there is a significant relationship between academic stress and achievement motivation in reliability level of 95% among the girl and boy students and there is no difference between academic stress and achievement motivation in reliability level of 95% among girl and boy students.

Academic Stress, Motivation, Achievement Motivation, Class-X Students

"“A STUDY OF ACADEMIC STRESS IN RELATION TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.287-292, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908347.pdf

"“A STUDY OF ACADEMIC STRESS IN RELATION TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp287-292, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908347.pdf