Principal Investigator

Fr. Dr. Sibichen K. K.

Assistant Professor in Education, St. Joseph’s Training
College,
Mannanam P. O., Kottayam, Kerala-686 561.
Introduction
The present study is designed to
analyze different stress coping
strategies among adolescents and
to develop proactive goal oriented
and proactive emotion focused
coping strategies among
adolescents.
 Students need to know there are positive ways to cope
with the stressors in their lives, and being able to
manage stress and cope with stressors may not only
benefit the students, but may also help their academic
performance too. Several studies indicated a need for
coping programmes in schools for adolescents. So
teachers could attend programmes and workshops to
gain knowledge about how to teach their students
positive coping strategies and stress management. For
that it is very essential to identify the coping strategies
commonly used by teachers and students. This is the
rationale to provide training to teachers in proactive
goal oriented and proactive emotional focused coping
strategies. The study thus becomes very pertinent and
relevant in today’s context.
 The study has direct relationship with
 Science,
 Psychology,
 Sociology,
 Education
This study aims at
- To reduce the negative effects of stress of
adolescents
- To develop proactive goal-oriented and
proactive emotion focused stress coping strategies
and skills through co-operative learning method
Role of Teachers
- To Provide adolescents with a positive
role model to help them
- Teachers are supposed to have sufficient
knowledge regarding positive stress coping strategies
- Training the teachers in stress coping
strategies will enhance the stress coping strategies of
their students.
 The investigator developed proactive goal-
oriented and proactive emotion focused stress
coping strategies and skills through co-
operative learning method and to find its
impact at the higher secondary level.
 Teaching stress management and coping
programmes in schools will help prepare
students with the tools needed to recognize
and manage stress in an effective and
positive manner.
 Students who will get positive coping
strategies through school based programmes
would have a stronger resilience, a higher
self-esteem, and a healthier lifestyle.
 Proactive goal-oriented coping action consists of the following
dimensions namely individual responsibility, self-belief to
face the challenges, persistence, direct action, preventive
coping and proactive planning.
Proactive emotion focused coping consists of the following
dimensions namely emotional self regulation, readiness to
take others’ suggestions and tendency to rely on others.
 Co-operative learning is used to describe an instructional
arrangement for teaching academic and collaborative skills to
small, heterogeneous groups of students. In the present study,
the investigators use Jigsaw method. Jigsaw method is a co-
operative learning technique in which students work in small
groups.
 To Identify

Stress Coping
Strategies

Higher
prepare and validate Higher
instructional material
secondar based on co-operative secondary
y school learning method school
teachers students
for developing proactive goal
oriented and proactive
emotion focused stress
coping strategies
 To find out the
effect of

Higher instructional material on Higher

secondar
co-operative learning secondary
method
y school school
teachers students
for developing proactive goal
oriented and proactive
emotion focused stress
coping strategies
Between 25 to 35
years

Between 35 to 45
years

Between 45 to 55
years
Gender

Male

Female
Locality

Urban

Rural
 Unaided
Aided

Govt.
Arts

Science
 Below
5years

Below 20 years Below 10 years

Below 15
years
Age

16 years

16 years
& Above
Boys

Girls
Locality

Urban

Rural
Aided Unaided Govt.
Arts

Science
•Educational
•Educational
qualification &
qualification &
•Occupation
•Occupation

Mother’s Father’s

Family

• Annual
Income
 Method - Experimental Method
 Design - Single group pre test post test
Experimental design

 Population - Higher Secondary School

Teachers and Students
of Kerala
 Sample - 10 teacher educators
(experts), 60 higher secondary school teachers and
3000 higher secondary school students from various
districts of Kerala
 Instructional material for teachers and
students
 Proactive goal-oriented and proactive
emotion focused stress coping scale for
teachers
 Proactive goal oriented and proactive
emotion focused stress coping scale for
students
STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES USED

Descriptive Statistics (Mean, Percentage, SD)

‘t’ test
Correlation
ANOVA
ANCOVA
Proposed Year wise Plan of work
Preliminary Work : 2 months
Preparation of tools and Instructional Materials : 4 months
Training for experts and teachers : 2 months
Selection of the Sample : 2 months
Experimentation at teacher level : 2 months
Experimentation at student level : 5 months
Data Collection and Data processing : 3 months
Statistical Analysis : 2 months
Preparation of the Report : 2 months
Total : 24 months
 Two tools were  Data collection
constructed over(except case
 Interview Schedule studies &Interview
developed with teachers)
 Adapted and  Data entry is being
Validated S. E.S. carried out
scale developed by  H.S.S Teachers were
Nair (2002) trained
 30 Instructional
materials
Developed
 Level One

Task No.

Resource team Preparation 12

The team prepared instructional
materials on co-operative learning
30
method for H. S.S.Teachers

Proactive goal-oriented and proactive

emotion focused stress coping scale for 1

teachers constructed
 Level II
Task No.

Proactive goal-oriented and proactive emotion

focused stress coping scale for students constructed
1

Training programme for higher secondary school

teachers through the instructional material prepared 60
based on co-operative learning method.

The H.S.S. Teachers developed instructional

materials on co-operative learning method 60
for H. S.S. Students
 Level III

Task No.

Pre-test Conducted
Each teacher who trained was taught 50
higher secondary school students for 30 3000
lessons in the co-operative learning method.

Post test conducted

 Case studies to be conducted
 Interview with Higher Secondary School
Teachers to be Completed
 Data entry work is going on
 Scoring, tabulation, analysis and
interpretation of the data to be done
 Report writing
 Targets to be achieved
Data processing : 3 months

Statistical Analysis : 2 months

Preparation of the Report : 2 months