Sources of Stress and their Coping Style: A Study of Student Sports Persons in Chandigarh

In past few years stress among sports persons has gained a lot of attention. The present study also aims at understanding this stress and finding out the different sources of such stress and to understand how they cope up with this stress. The present study holds an importance as it is done on the students sports persons only who are at the secondary level of education only. The study is based on a sample of 112 respondents of Chandigarh city. The data has been collected with the help of a structured questionnaire. The study has revealed that the prime source of stress is of injury and illness and the most prevalent style of coping stress including stress of injury and illness is approach style. The study gives insights into what sports persons of young age group feel and how they cope up with that.