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dc.contributor.authorSsenyonjo, Godfrey
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-02T12:56:57Z
dc.date.available2019-05-02T12:56:57Z
dc.date.issued2018-08
dc.identifier.citationSsenyonjo, G. (2018). Stress and academic performance among secondary school students. Unpublished Bachelors Dissertation. Makerere Universityen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12281/5848
dc.descriptionA dissertation submitted to the College of Humanities and Social Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of a Bachelor of Industrial and Organisational Psychology degree of Makerere Universityen_US
dc.description.abstractThe study investigated the relationship between stress and academic performance among secondary school students. The study aimed to achieve the following objectives; To find out the nature of stress among secondary school students, to examine the causes of stress among secondary school students and to evaluate the relationship between stress and academic performance of secondary school students. A correlation study design was used in the study to establish the relationship between stress and academic performance among secondary school students. The study used a sample of 50 respondents who were obtained using simple random sampling technique. Data was collected using self-administered questionnaires and later analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Scientists version 20. The findings show that there is a significant negative relationship between occupational stress and job performance since (p=.000< 0.01 at r=.586**) in conclusion, this implies that presence or increase in stress among students leads to an increase in academic performance among secondary school students.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectStressen_US
dc.subjectacademic performanceen_US
dc.subjectstudentsen_US
dc.titleStress and academic performance among secondary school studentsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US


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