Abstract: The current study investigates the relationship between social provision, self-efficacy and additionally stress among adolescents. Participants include 100 adolescent (50 boys and 50 girls) of Higher Secondary School students who are studying in Helen Lowry School, Aizawl, Mizoram. The participants were measured using three tests – social provision scale (Cutrona and Russell, 1987), self-efficacy tests (Singh and Narain, 2014) and stress scale (Lakshmi and Narain, 2014). Results showed the tests to be trustworthy for the population i.e., r=0.80, r=0.82 and r=0.81 respectively for social provision scale, self-efficacy scale and stress scale. Gender differences was found to be significant for self-efficacy and stress but not for social provision. Analysis revealed a significant positive relationship between social provision and self-efficacy (0.37**) and significant negative relationship between self-efficacy and stress (-0.30**). Further analysis found social provision to signifcantly predict self-efficacy.
Keywords: Social provision, self-efficacy, stress, adolescence, gender
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