Title: Social Stress In Relation To Social-Emotional Learning Among Adolescents
Abstract: The word 'stress' nowadays has become a typical word and almost every individual at any stage, at any age of their life, experiences it.Social-emotional learning competencies are regarded as a good marker of how well adolescents adjust to their surrounding environments and these competencies aid adolescents in coping with social stress during adolescence.The objective of the study was to find out the association between social stress and social-emotional learning among adolescents.The data was collected from 500 adolescents in the age range of 13-14 years and Scale of Social Stress by Bisht (2005) was used to assess the level of social stress among adolescents.The study revealed that significantly more number of adolescents from nuclear families were at the average level of social frustration and social pressure dimensions of social stress.Adolescents from joint families significantly experienced more social pressure.Further, social-emotional learning was non-significantly positively correlated with social stress in joint families and nonsignificantly negatively correlated with social stress in nuclear families.