Stress, Anxiety and Depression among Adolescents Attending Coaching Institutes in Coaching Hub of Kota

Agency : ICMR

The study was accomplished to examine the level of stress, anxiety and depression faced by the adolescents who were taking coaching for pre-medical and pre-engineering exams in Kota. The broad objective of the study was to assess the level of depression, anxiety and stress among students preparing for competitive exams like IIT, CPMT, RPMT, AFMC, AIEEE, and RPET, and also to find out the difference in the level of stress, anxiety and depression between those who are preparing for engineering and medical entrance exams. The tool used to measure three negative emotional states was DASS (Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale).The brief of the study is as follows - In the present times there is a mismatch between how schools groom students and what is required to qualify the IIT, pre-Engineering or pre-Medical exam. Thus in India some enterprising individuals/groups started coaching institutes and created a niche for themselves. One can witness the mushrooming growth of these institutes in different states; Rajasthan was amongst the pioneers. These institutes claimed that they specialize in preparing students to get through pre-medical, IIT and engineering exams and proved their point by showing the incremental growth of successful students. During or after completing school education, adolescents spend most of their time to prepare for these entrance exams in these coaching institutes. This hard time-bound preparation sometimes produces stress, anxiety and depression in some of the students. The key findings on the variable of stress supported the pre-generalized notion that adolescents preparing for pre-medical competitive examinations were more stressed than those preparing for pre-engineering competitive examinations. The anxiety level of adolescents was measured on four constructs: autonomic arousal, skeletal muscle effect, situational anxiety, and subjective experience of anxious effect. The major findings suggested that about one-third of adolescents of the sample reported moderate level of anxiety, which was followed by normal, severe, extremely severe and mild level of anxiety. A substantially large number of students were found to be depressed at moderate level. The girls were found to be more depressed and having the feeling of hopelessness, sadness, decreased level of enthusiasm, anhedonia, inertia, etc.



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