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Volume 4 Issue 6 (November - December, 2016)

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PREVALENCE OF STRESS AND COPING STRATEGIES AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS
Anil Jain, Sandeep Verma

Background: College students are exposed to a considerable amount of stress, which necessitate successful and constantly changing coping strategy. The aim of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of stress among students of colleges. Materials & Methods: This study is based on graduate students of 4 different colleges. It included 550 students, 260 males and 290 females. A self structures questionnaire was prepared on three sections. The first section comprising of demographic information, the second section is a set of questions on academic, emotional, social, and financial stressors and the last section includes the statements on positive and negative coping. Questionnaire was filled by students. Results: The present study comprised of 550 students (male- 260, female- 290). Among all, family expectations were the most both in males (52%) and females (50%). Competition was other stress level in all, male (25%) and females (29%). Other stress level was teacher expectation and excessive work load. The social stressors included were attending social events, trouble getting along with a family member, having no friends. 20% of males and 27% of females were having trouble getting along with family members, 15% males and 10% females had no friends. Social stress was not a concern for most of the participants. Conclusion: Author concluded that academic stress was highly correlated with social and financial stress. Positive coping strategies like meditation, prayer and sleep was found to be very helpful in dealing stress. Negative coping strategies were drug use, smoking, use of social media and alcoholism.
Key Words: Stress, Positive coping strategies, Negative coping strategies

Corresponding Author: Dr. Anil Jain, Associate Professor, Integral Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Lucknow, U.P, India

This article may be cited as: Jain A, Sandeep Verma S. Prevalence of stress and coping strategies among college students. J Adv Med Dent Scie Res 2016;4(6):95-99.

 
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