• Mr. Saroj Kumar Das

Academic stress permeates the life of students and tends to impact adversely on their mental and physical health. To perform well in academics, visually impaired students face an enormous amount of pressure from their families and schools. The thing that can release the pressure and foster easily within the school environment is resilience. It is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress. The present study examined academic stress in relation to resilience among visually impaired secondary school students. The purpose of the study was to study the academic stress and resilience among visually impaired secondary school students, to investigate the relationship between academic stress and resilience among visually impaired secondary school students and to study the difference in academic stress and resilience between male and female visually impaired secondary school students. A total of 120 secondary school students from Union territory Chandigarh, Panipat District of Haryana and Dehradun of Uttarakhand were selected randomly. Scale of Academic Stress (SAS) originally developed and standardized by Kim (1970) and adopted to Indian conditions by Rajendran & Kaliappan (1990) and Rao (2012) and Resilience Assessment Scale (RAS) developed and standardized by Kukreja (2014) were used for the collection of the data. The data were analysed using both descriptive (Mean, Frequency and Percentage) and parametric (Product moment coefficient of correlation ‘r’ and t-test) statistics. It was found that 70.00% and 15.83% of students were having an average and high level of academic stress respectively and 72.50% and 11.67% students were having an average and high level of resilience respectively. Results indicated that a negative and significant relationship was found between academic stress and resilience among visually impaired students. Further results revealed that a significant difference was found in academic stress between male and female visually impaired students and no significant difference was found in resilience between male and female visually impaired students.

Academic Stress, Resilience and Visually Impaired Students

"ACADEMIC STRESS IN RELATION TO RESILIENCE AMONG VISUALLY IMPAIRED SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 8, page no.c661-c670, August-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2108335.pdf

"ACADEMIC STRESS IN RELATION TO RESILIENCE AMONG VISUALLY IMPAIRED SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 8, page no. ppc661-c670, August-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2108335.pdf