Common Causes and of Stress

Young people become stressed for many reasons. The Minnesota study presented students with a list of 47 common life events and asked them to identify those they had experienced in the last six months that they considered to be "bad." The responses indicated that they had experienced an average of two negative life events in the last six months. The most common of these were:

Break up with boy/girl friend
Increased arguments with parents
Trouble with brother or sister
Increased arguments between parents
Change in parents' financial status
Serious illness or injury of family member
Trouble with classmates
Trouble with parents

These events are centered in the two most important domains of a teenager's life: home and school. They relate to issues of conflict and loss. Loss can reflect the real or perceived loss of something concrete such as a friend or money, and it can mean the loss of such intrinsic things as self-worth, respect, friendship or love.

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Comment by USHA SHARMA on April 6, 2014 at 7:25am: very true kusum however do you know that the teachers community faces lot of stress and there are more chances of going into depression Go through this article and you will know this

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/aug/31/teaching.teachersw...

What do you think should be changed in our system so that the community which works to create and nurture the lives of others should be saved from clutches of stress/depression?

Comment by kusum rawat on April 6, 2014 at 12:51pm: Hi Mam, Thankyou for the info that u provided thru the above mentioned site. And i wud like to add here that its nt the case only in Britain but same is happening in India too specially in Urban areas where parents are becoming demanding as they are extremely concerned abt their child's future but at the same time i feel that we ve bcome so career oriented that our priority has changed from family to career. Also teachers are taken for granted i feel most of the times, not only by the educational organisation but also by the government itself. Sometimes after reading such articles, I feel that a teacher is no more a teacher but has got reduced to a " day care personnel". I may be wrong but that's wht its goung to be if we dont highlight those boundaries which will differentiate us frm A DayCare Personnel.