Psychological stress among students coming to the baccalaureate exam during the Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

The study aimed at identifying the level of psychological stress among students undertaking baccalaureate exam during the Covid_19 pandemic . The descriptive method was used and a sample of (60) male and female students in the third year of high school at the secondary level of Qadi Muhammad Saida State was randomly selected. Boufatah Muhammad Psychological Stress Scale (2012), which includes six axes: parental pressure, school pressure, peer pressure, review pressure, exam pressure and life events stress was adopted to achieve the study goals. the results indicated -:The presence of a high level of psychological pressure among the baccalaureate students -With regard to the dimensions, a low level of psychological stress was found after peer pressure, -an average level of parents and school dimension, -while the results recorded a high level of psychological stress in the following dimensions: examination pressure, stress of life events, review pressure.There are no differences in the level of psychological stress among students coming to the baccalaureate exam due to the variable of gender and scientific specialization.In light of these results, a set of suggestions was developed.