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A Study of Relationship
lationship Between Personality and
a
Learning Stress among Students
Pragya Singh Prof. K.S.Misra
Research Scholar, Department
tment of Education, Superviser, Department of Education,
Education
University of Allahabad University off Allahabad
ABSTRACT
Learning stress is one of the biggest problems among in learning events can cause or aggravate learning
the students in present scenario. It becomes very stress. The rising expectations of the parents in terms
injurious many times for students mental and physical of academic performance usually put extra burden on
health. The objective of the present study is to find children, it may sometimes cause many physical or
out the relationship between learning stress and mental ailments, if not dealt effectively. But academic
ac
personality traits among students. The sample of 89 stress has an adverse effect on the mental health of
students of class XI students was taken from two adolescents. Learning stress is result of challenges of
institutions of the city. Two tools named ‘Learning a learning situations and student ability and efforts to
Stress Scale’ and ‘Personality Inventory’ has been meet with them. When student’s aspirations are too
used. Correlaional method of research has been used. high to reach but his abilities, interests, attitudes and
To find out the relationship between learning stress capacities do not match with it, the students develop
and personality product moment correlation has been stress. This stress may cause different types of
analyze the data. Results of the study show a negative physical or mental problems
relationship was found between learning stress and
assertive, more analytical and confident trait of Personality variables also affect people’s reaction to
personality on the other hand humble, less analytical potential stressors. Personality can be a main source
and apprehensive traits of personality are positively of variation in the arousal of stress and its affect on
correlated with learning stress. Students who are human functioning. It determines the way an
assertive, more analytical and confident feel less individual evaluates the personal significance of what
learning stress but students who are humble, less is happening in and outside the classroom.
analytical and apprehensive feel more stress. Study Researches have been taken place to understand
understa the
also does not find any relationship between learning relationship between anxiety and personality. The
stress and experimenting, emotionally stable, sociable, need to know about the relationship between learning
more inquisitive, relaxed, persistent, supportive, stress and personality encouraged researcher to take
independent, enthusiastic, forthright, divergent, this topic for study. Amanda et al, 2013,
2013 conducted a
dominant, adaptive, spiritual, affectionate, self
self-critical study on academic major, personality type
ty and stress
and conscientious traits of personality. among college students, No difference in personality
traits was found between different majors, stress
A STUDY OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN correlated positively with neuroticism, but did not
PERSONALITY AND LEARNING STRESS correlate with any other personality traits, neuroticism
AMONG STUDENTS correlated negatively with extraversion.
raversion.
Now a day’ss learning stress has become a matter of An article written by Carver and Connor-Smith
Connor
concern for the students. Physiological and (2010) explored if people with different personality
psychological changes occurring during engagement types use different coping mechanisms. Individuals
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Assertive vs humble (r- .263) and more analytical vs for scoring in the examination, they are unable to
less analytical (r-.242) are significant at 0.05 level. think critically, so they feel problem in answering
Values of coefficient of correlation between learning application based questions, they are unable to find
stress and Confident vs apprehensive (r-.310) is out the right solutions of the problems, so these type
significant at 0.01 level. It means learning stress is of students have more stress.
negatively related to personality traits named
assertive, more analytical and confident but it is CONCLUSION
positively apprehensive, less analytical and humble. The objective of the study was to find out the
Table 1 also reveals that the coefficient of correlation relationship between learning stress and personality,
between remaining 17 traits of personality and the results shows a positive relationship between the
learning stress are not significant at 0.05 level. It three personality traits name less analytical,
means learning stress is not related to personality apprehensive and humble, whether negative
traits named experimenting, emotionally stable, correlation is find out between learning stress and
sociable, more inquisitive, relaxed, persistent, assertive, confident and more analytical traits of
supportive, independent, enthusiastic, forthright, personality. Remaining 17 personality traits do not
divergent, dominant, adaptive, spiritual, affectionate, show any correlation with learning stress. Previous
self-critical and conscientious. Study of Ebstrup, J., et al (2011) has shown a
Results shows that students who are more assertive moderate negative correlation between conscientious
feel less learning stress, it is possible because and stress, but the results of the study are
assertive students are able to correctly express their contradictory to it, as no any relationship was found
opinions as well as defend their point of view before between learning stress and conscientious. The result
there teachers, they get confidence through this and that assertiveness is negatively related to learning
get able to solve their problems through discussion stress support the study of Carver et al(2010) who
with teachers and classmates, assertive students use to found a negative correlation between assertive trait of
listen things actively in the classroom, so that they personality and learning stress.
may be able to represent themselves very well, thus
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