Psychological Pressures Experienced by Secondary School Students in Bani Waleed: A Field Study

Abstract

The current research aims to identify whether there are differences in the level of psychological stress among secondary school students in Bani Walid, and in order to achieve the research goal, the researcher used a descriptive comparative research method, and the study community included all secondary school students in Bani Walid for the academic year 2024/2025, a total of (2427) students, including a literary specialty number (519) and the number of scientific students (1908) students, including males (1437) students, and females (990) students. The sample size obtained was 280, including 191 in the scientific department and 89 in the literary department, which supports the adequacy of the sample statistically, and this is sufficient to study the differences in psychological pressures between the specialists in this society. The results show the presence of varying levels of stress and anxiety, which are often medium to high in many items, if the result indicates that high school students suffer from relatively high levels of psychological stress. There is no statistically significant positive effect, so this result indicates that the differences between males and females in the average psychological stress scores are not statistically significant, and cannot be considered significant or fixed differences in the student community in Bani Walid.There is also no statistically significant positive effect, so this result indicates that there are no statistically significant differences between students of the scientific department and students of the literary department in their average score on the stress scale.