2020, Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part D

Stress is a condition of mental pressure for particular individual facing problems from environmental and social well-being which leads to so many diseases. Young age is the critical period because at this time youth faces lots of changes in his/her life especially in sports and education sector.

They are expected to be the leaders in the society. Thus, they should enhance their stress management abilities so as to live a healthy life after entering the society and as well as corporate sector. When a child enters into the youth age, they need to not only adapt themselves to the new life and new environment but also be familiar with many new people, and friends. The life stress on them is considerable. Therefore, understanding the sources of stress among them and how they can manage with the stress is very important.

The current paper researcher found that the stress mainly comes before and in some cases after sports event like Olympics, national competitions, state level competitions, and also in personal relations, relationship problems, life changes, and career exploration. Such stress may usually cause psychological, physical, and behavioral problems.

This study finds the causes of stress among athletes. So after identifying causes the researcher suggests that more emphasis can be given to development stage of child into adolescence. They should be brought up in the optimistic environment. More emphasis should be given to the outdoor activities and create hostile learning environment by minimizing the negative impact of stressors. The findings will help the athletes, individual students, scholars, career guidance, personality development and counseling centers.