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Mamta Sharma and Tanmeet
Punjabi University, Patiala
The purpose of the paper is to study the relationship between perceived social
support and academic stress among adolescents. The study has been conducted
on a sample of 280 adolescents. Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social
Support and Bisht Battery of stress scale were used to measure perceived
social support and academic stress respectively. The findings suggest that
adolescents, who were high on perceived social support, were low on all subdimensions of academic stress, which determine that perceived social support
enhances an individual’s psychological and social functioning. Consistent positive
support contributes to improve an individual’s ability to break down stress into a
manageable level. The paper stresses upon importance and role of perceived
social support in reduction of academic stress among young adults.