A study on relationship between pro- social and stress perception of higher secondary students

In this study, an attempt has been made to study the relationship between different dimensions of pro-social behaviour and stress perception of higher secondary students. The pro-social and antisocial behaviour scale was constructed and validated by the investigator has been used for this study to measure the pro-social behaviour of higher secondary students. Stress perception scale was constructed and validated by Lydia Eric. The pro-social and antisocial behaviour scale includes four dimensions of pro-social behaviour namely, donating, helping, sharing and comfort behaviour. The tool has been administered to a random sample of 836 higher secondary students studying in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu. The survey method has been followed for the present study. The result of the study reveals that there is significantly moderate correlation and negative relationship between stress perception and different dimensions of pro-social behaviour such as donating beaviour, helping and total pro-social behaviour. Also it shows that there is significantly low correlation and negative relationship between stress perception and dimensions of pro-social behaviour such as sharing and comfort behaviour.