Overall responses revealed that teenagers only feel stressed sometimes. Gender was a more significant factor. Interestingly, although numerous professional books and journal articles on the subject of stress consider stress high for teens, our study slightly disagree. Males in our study tended to feel stress often, while females inclined to experience stress sometimes.

Our findings suggest that the main stressor of this generation is school (55 percent). This observation was predictable because school should be the main activity of this age group. Those who acknowledged two or more stressors implied that family and school were factors. As exam dates approach, anxiety and frustration attack this group of young people. Struggling with homework and passing tests are common experiences in teens. Teens who play sports may fear that their performance will let others down.

Test anxiety may be a real problem for teenagers today.

High expectations from parents and self for achieving noble scores affects self-identity and self-worth which in turns becomes a hindrance to the academic development and potential of young people. In 2000, Professor Martyn Densocombe of De Montfort University, Leicester, questioned over 1,600 teenagers aged 15 and 16 about what threatens their mental health. He found that, "Time and again, young people talked of the stresses involved as they worked in school towards their 16+ examinations." On top of that, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, in the year 2000, about 10 percent of children under 18 or nearly 7.1 million children are now under the care of divorced parents, compared to 7.5 percent or about 4.7 million children, in the year 1978. This connects to our secondary stress factor: family. Perhaps, helping teenagers to release this pressure by altering their feelings, self-attitudes and outlook on life will increase the ability to cope with school and families.

Our findings also highlighted that the top five effects of stress in teenagers are: irritation, anger, sleeplessness, depression and headaches. This associates the notion that generally teenagers perceive stress as an unwanted pressure or threat. In 1986, Garfinkel conducted a study of 4,300 high school students in 52 rural Minnesota cities. The symptoms most cited were depression and self-destructive behavior. The findings suggested that an ample majority reported to handling stress and anxiety alone. Many teens are handling stressful situations for the first time, and are confused as to how to deal with it. Perhaps, adults should be more concerned about how stress affects teens and consider that young people's levels of stress can be just as upsetting as theirs.

Females tended to react to stress with headaches, whereas males are prone to increase their activity, such as with sports and the notion of play. Perhaps, this is a gender difference.