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Authors
Affiliations
1 Department of Applied Psychology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, IN
2 Department of Statistics, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, IN
Source
Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, Vol 6, No 3 (2015), Pagination: 231-235
Abstract
The broad objective of the study was to investigate the perceived academic stress of Pondicherry University students across gender, academic stream, semesters, and academic performance. A group 699 university students from three academic streams viz., Humanities&Social Science, Science and Management was covered m the study following multi-stage cluster sampling method and data was collected by using a specially designed Structured Questionnaire and a standardized psychological scale on academic stress following self-admmistration method. Findings disclosed that female students experienced more academic stress compared to male student (p<.01). Students from Humanities and Social Science were found to be suffering from more academic stress than that of Science and Management students (p<.01). Semester II students (p<.01) and students with better academic performance (p<.01) reported experiencing more academic stress. The findings speak in favor of institution-based mentalhealth support services for the university students tohelp them to overcome the academic stress and perform better
Keywords
Students, Academic Stress, University.
