A Study on Academic Stress of Teacher Training Students

Stress and strain are necessary in every work to achieve the success. Appropriate stress is a juncture for self-growth and also a motivation for people to progress actively however, overstress causes problems and discomfort, and can have serious effects on people. Specifically, students face the stress when they enter a completely new world of professional education. The present study deals with the academic stress of teacher training students. B.Ed is entirely a different course for the students who enter after completing degree. Naturally they feel confusion, worry about the record work etc. It is necessary to make students confident in teaching by reducing their stress. So the present paper is an attempt to study the levels of academic stress and the effect of variables like gender, age, methodology subjects, marital status, social status. Sample of 200 students from three colleges of Andhra Pradesh are taken. A standardized tool on academic stress prepared by K.J. Suresh and V.P.Joshik (2004) was used. Mean, SD, T test, ANOVA are used for statistical interpretation. Results showed that there are different levels of academic stress among teacher training students. Variables like gender and methodology show significant influence on academic stress of teacher trainees. Academic stress may affect adversely on the performance. So the teacher training institutes should take some effective measures to reduce the academic stress of the students. Proper guidance, individual attention, free atmosphere, proper planning of academic activities will help to reduce their academic stress.