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Increasing stress among the young generation is an alarming situation for us. It has been observed that the level of stress has invaded all age groups be it job professionals, college going students or school going students. This article focuses on the understanding of stress, its symptoms , direct and indirect effects and the suggestions & tips to overcome stress related problems with the help of stress management tools especially among students of undergraduate program. This research has been done on one hundred students of AISECT University with a standardized questionnaireof Barreca& Hepler (2000) using SPSS research methodology.
Storm and stress in relation to adolescents can be said to be the challenges faced and dealt with during this process of growth, these stress and storm can be related to the pressure and expectation from society, media and peers pressure, stress is not necessary caused by these process of growth but by the demand and responsibility that is usually attached to it. These period of development in adolescents have various impact and effects on what kind of stress they face and how it is being dealt with, these stress can either physical, intellectual, emotional or social. Adolescent period is often believed to be a difficult period and very critical stage of transition because of various qualitative shift that they pass through at that moment of life and this conflicts with breaking away from the old self and interest of the childhood memories and all these periods are accompanied by significant changes of various degrees for instance, all the characteristics involved in puberty such as menstrual cycle in girls and hair growth in certain part of the body in boys as well as deepening of the voice. It is generally believed that most if not all adolescent experience difference stages of storm and stress at this period of their life, Ponty says not all adolescents are likely to experience stress, although of all stage of the life span, these years are the most volatile and also express his view further by saying that where adolescents do experience storm and stress, it is most likely to manifest in the following ways-Conflicts with parents: There is a high chance that adolescent tends to be rebellious due to their search of freedom and authority-Mood disruptions: adolescents pass through emotional cycle at this stage compared to childhood stage and adulthood.-Dodgy behaviours: adolescents are usually associated with certain dodgy behaviours such as recklessness, norm breaking and various level of antisocial behaviour. Most adolescent stress is also related to lack of identity which usually arises because they start to think about who they are and what they want to become and this tend to put them under a pressure to discover their real identity and the pursuit of this leads to a sharpened sense of dignity which makes them want to gain their freedom and freedom of choice thus creating a gap between themselves and their parents because they see themselves as more of an individual and someone who can make decisions on their own and this whole process of transition causes a whole lot of confusion between them and the parents which is one big subject parents nowadays find difficult to cope with and tends to see adolescent as moody, self centred, detached or being too concealed. Also this leads to peer pressure issues, the continuous search for identity leads to them flocking with people who are of the same mindset and this tends to put them under more pressure within