• JYOTHI JAGADISH
• Prof. R. Sreevani

Stress and anxietyis a part of day-to-day living. It refers to the response you have when facing circumstances that force you to act, change or adjust in some way to keep things balanced. It is your body's way of responding to any kind of demand. In the right dose, stress can be healthy or even enjoyable. However, stress can be very damaging for students when it becomes excessive. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Stress Management Programme (SMP) on reducing stress and anxiety among adolescents in selected pre-university (PU) colleges in Kolar. Stress Management Programme (SMP) has been found to provide significant stress and anxiety reduction benefits. Material and methods: For the present study, quasi experimental non-equivalent control group pretest post test design was adopted. The independent variable was Stress Management Programme (SMP) and dependent variable was stress and anxiety of pre-university (PU) college students. The sample consisted of 60 students from selected colleges at Kolar byconvenient sampling technique. Based on the convenience, 2 schools were selected.Students who are studying in Mahila samajam PU college were taken as experimentalgroup and students who are studying in Vidhya jyothi PU college was taken as control group. Standardised tool Students stress rating scale (SSRS) was used to collect the data on assessing stress among Pre-university (PU) college students. The Stress Management Program (SMP) was developed and given for validation to 5 experts. The pretest was conducted on the 1stday for experimental and control group subjects. Stress Management Programme (SMP) was administered in 3 sessions each session lasting for 45 minutes at an interval of one week each. Post-test was conducted 15 days after the intervention for both the groups. Results: The study finding reveals that in terms of demographic variables majority(80%) of the study subjects were in the age group of 14-16yrs and were boys (60%)who are coming from nuclear family (70%). Majority of them (90%) are residing in urban area and their parents were employed (80%). In terms of educational variables, all the subjects scored above 70% marks in 10th standard and majority (60%) had taken more than two hours to do their home work. Majority of the subjects had a distance of more than 15kms and they are very satisfied in their relationship with friends (40%) and majority of them had close friends (80%) and about 60% of them were talking to parents while having problem. The findings of the study revealed that there was a statistically significant difference between posttest stress scores of experimental (111.76± 30.53) and control group subjects (130.23±35.51). Hence the first hypothesis was accepted. It shows that Stress Management Programme (SMP) was effective to reduce stress amongadolescents in pre-university (PU) colleges. It also shows that there was no significant association of pretest stress and anxiety scores with selected demographic and educational variables Conclusion: The present study implies that conducting stress management programme is effective in reducing stress of students and help them to have a balanced lifestyle.

Stress, Anxiety, Stress Management Programme

"EFFECTIVENESS OF STRESS MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME (SMP) ON STRESS AND ANXIETY REDUCTION AMONG ADOLESCENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 12, page no.f437-f443, December-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2412550.pdf

"EFFECTIVENESS OF STRESS MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME (SMP) ON STRESS AND ANXIETY REDUCTION AMONG ADOLESCENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 12, page no. ppf437-f443, December-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2412550.pdf