The role of emotional intelligence and gender on academic stress among adolescents in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh state. Objectives: To assess the impact of emotional intelligence and gender on academic stress among adolescents. To find out the relationship between emotional intelligence and gender with academic stress among adolescents. Sample: The sample of the present study consisted of 400 adolescents in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh State were selected in the age group of 18-21 years and using simple random sampling technique. The Emotional Intelligence scale developed by Nutankumar Thingujam and Usha Ram (1999) and Students Academic Stress Scale was developed and standardized by Kumar Reddy (1999) were used. Design: As there are two independent variables like emotional intelligence (low & high) and gender (male & female), each variable is further classified into, a 2 × 2 factorial design was employed. The obtained data was analyzed statistically to test the hypotheses using Means, SDs, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Correlation were calculated.Students with high emotional intelligence are experiencing less academic stress than the students with low emotional intelligence. Male students are experiencing more academic stress than female students and emotional intelligence and gender were negative relation with academic stress.