Stress, Coping Behavior and Social Support in Adolescent Boys and Girls

This book pertains to the experience of Physiological, Psychological, Behavioural, Social and Educational Stress, Mechanisms of coping inclusive of Social support of the adolescent boys and girls. It reviews the historical antecedents of studies on stress, discusses several characteristics of stress and its effects, the influential factors of stress and strategies of coping. It includes a trend - setting standardized tool measuring the intensity of stress in adolescents. The interpretative analysis provided qualitative information with regard to the sources of stress and coping mechanisms. The summarizations were meticulously focussed revealing several factors in sensitization to stress. This book juvenates and provides an insight to Academicians, Teachers, Trainers and Researchers to improve the competencies of adolescents.