Authors : Advita Deshmukh (Deepali Savant)
Page Nos : 405- 415
Description :
Children bring joy in the lives of the parents. With this joy and gift, comes the responsibility and commitment to care and nurture another human being from infancy to adulthood, which results in stress - stress of not being able to be Perfect Parents and not being able to raise Perfect Children. Perfect Parent and Perfect Child is nothing but a myth. Inability to accept this fact leads to stress. Though persons may face unique stressors throughout their lives, many demands of parenthood anxieties and the stressors that parents experience are universally same everywhere, majorly related to the stress due to one‘s child‘s academic performance. This study was carried out to find the level of stress experienced by Mothers (50) and Fathers (50) with regard to the performance of their children in examination. For this self-developed questionnaire was used. The level of stress experienced by the respondents was divided into three parts based on especially designed scale, denoting low stress, medium stress and high stress. ‗Z‘ test was applied to check the difference in the level of stress experienced by the respondents. The results showed that mothers experienced high level of stress than that of stress experienced by fathers with regard to the performance of their children in examination. Similarly, fathers experienced low level of general stress than compared to the mothers.
