A STUDY OF ANXIETY AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCY OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS OF KHEDA DISTRICT

Abstract

High school students are likely to face lots of problems and turmoil as they belong to the adolescence period which is characterized by “Storm and Stress”. It is a developmental period that is filled with many challenges. In the current age of competitions, demands on secondary school students have increased tremendously. The developments around the world have brought newer job opportunities and aspirations in their lives. Today parents have high expectations from their children. They want them to grow academically, to prepare for future, to maintain family status and standards for attaining social acceptance and adjustment. This in turn, causes concern, tension, apprehensions, stress and strain. In the stressful situations, students are prone to feel nervousness, anxiety, frustrations etc. many students are finding difficult to cope up and are inclined to suffer from sever anxiety problems and may show behavioral disorders.