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    (2024-09-10) Zawedde Dorothy
    Stress is among one of the major occurrences that are directly and indirectly related to lives of human being around the world. Both student leaders and non-student leaders in secondary schools have equally reported some signs of stress. Throughout the lives of students in school, there are always cases when they experience stress which is known to negatively affect their academic performance. About 40% of the students in secondary schools have signs and symptoms of depression and from these students; 82.5% of them have symptoms of frustration and anger and 67.5% have symptoms of anxiety and fear. This research thus majorly focused on assessing the perceived influence of stress, coping on the academic performance of both girls in leadership together with none leaders in secondary schools. The researcher further employed a descriptive survey design with a quantitative approach. The study population was categorized of girl student leaders and none girl leaders in the selected schools of Mukono Municipality and a sample size of 83 girl student leaders and 348 none leaders who were selected. The researcher used closed ended questionnaires to gather data from all the study respondents and SPSS 21.0 was used to carry out the data collection process. Findings from this study revealed that all students at one point have ever expressed stress in the course of their study. Major sources of stress among girls in secondary schools are institutional demands, academic work together with a few external stressors. Therefore, among the girl student leaders, dominant among the stressors were institutional stressors (M = 3.36). On the other hand, among the girl student none leaders, dominant among the stressors were academic stressors (M = 3.90). Multiple linear regression results for student leaders in the selected secondary schools revealed that there was a significant relationship between the academic stressors, institutional stressors together with academic performance of girl students in leadership at 5 percent level of significance (P<0.05). On the other hand, among none student leaders, only academic stressors significantly influence the academic performance of students (P>0.05). Regarding coping strategies, majority of the girl leaders either agreed or completely agreed that they made an attempt to carry out activities which could make them feel better for the times they felt stressed. The researcher therefore recommends that secondary schools should put a lot of emphasis on establishing counseling programmes with an objective of empowering the girl child so that girls develop the capacity to deal with stress while at school.