An empirical study on managing stress in guided schools to increase educational skills


Leila Zeinalian


The primary objective of this paper is to study the impact of stress on educational school- children who are enrolled in guided schools. Teenagers are normally facing with stress and feelings and when the level of stress increases, they may face with problems, which would become more serious as they get older. In this study, we perform a standard stress relief program (CS-R Coping With Stress-Revised) and try to reduce the burden of stress among 1240 students who attended guided schools. We split the people into two groups of experiment and witness and performed the study among one group. Before the exam, there was no meaningful difference between their average markings but after performing the exam, the average marking of the experienced students was increase by 0.53. The results clearly indicate that it is possible to make significant change on students' personal characteristics.


DOI: j.msl.2012.06.004

Keywords: Stress ,Guided schools ,Coping with stress ,Teenager's stress

How to cite this paper:

Zeinalian, L. (2012). An empirical study on managing stress in guided schools to increase educational skills.Management Science Letters, 2(6), 2141-2146.


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