Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to examine the vulnerability to the symptoms of
depression, anxiety and stress among adolescent boarders and non-boarders. It was
hypothesized that male adolescents who receive education from boarding schools will
be more vulnerable to the psychological symptoms than male adolescents who
receive education from non-boarding schools. The second hypothesis was that female
adolescents who receive education from boarding schools will be more vulnerable to
the psychological symptoms than female adolescents who receive education from
non-boarding schools. Moreover, it was also hypothesized that female adolescents
who receive education from boarding schools will be more vulnerable to the
psychological symptoms than the male adolescents who receive boarding education.
The purposive sampling was used to select the total sample of 100 male and
female participants which further divided into boarders (n=50) and non-boarders
(n=50) from different schools of boarding and non-boarding education system. The
age group of participants was between 13-18 years, belonging to ninth standard to
intermediate. Depression, anxiety and stress scale (DASS) was administered after
administering the informed consent and demographic form. The obtained result was
analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences - 20 (SPSS-20).
The statistical analysis ofthe results showed a significant difference at P=0.00
level, which indicates highly significant results that both male and female adolescents
at boarding schools are more vulnerable to the psychological symptoms which
includes depression, anxiety and stress as compared to non-boarding students.
