Psychological impact of lockdown of COVID-19 in adolescents

Covid-19 is a world’s biggest issue. It is spreading all over the word day by day. There is no treatment for this disease but one can take only precautions like staying at home, wash hands frequently, use masks etc. Therefore, our government has decided to lockdown till the improvement of conditions. In this situation all citizens are staying at home. The thrust of this study is to know the psychological impact of lockdown on adolescents of Ranchi. Here psychological impact refers the level of stress. Stress is a psychological problem which produces physical, emotional or mental disturbances in a person. Pre-test post test design has been applied in this study. 50 healthy adolescents were administered Student Stress Scale before and after 1 month of lockdown. t-test was used for the treatment of data. The present study reveals that adolescents feel higher level of stress after 1 month of lockdown in comparison to before lockdown. This study also reveals that female adolescents have higher level of stress in both conditions (before and after 1 month of lockdown) in comparison to male respondents.