Achievement motivation stress and its management of high and low achieving visual need students

Abstract

In contemporary education system child is exposed to various circumstances which is creating stressful environment for the child. Rice (1999) pointed out in his study that with long-term stress exposure, the individual will enter into the stage of exhaustion. If the stressor is extremely intense and persists over a long period of time, the exhaustion stage sets in, and the risk of emotional and physical problems increases. In this stage, the individual experiences symptoms of exhaustion, such as loss of morale and feelings of loss of control and a final collapse will occur. Stress is defined as an organism s total response to an environmental phenomena or stimulus, also known as a stressor. Achievement motivation is defined as, the tendency to endeavour for the attaining of goal, it is specific motive which is concerned for a specific type of good and excellence. It is satisfaction seeking tending while doing harder task with higher rate of risk. It is forward looking tendency and attitude on the ground of reality for all possible adjustment (McClelland 1953). French (1958) and Thomas (1958) pointed out achievement motivation refers to satisfaction in doing difficult things well and this satisfaction increased with difficulty. It is combination of desire to do well by achieving something difficult. Achievement motivation is a desire to accomplish something difficult, to master, manipulate or organize objects. newline