1Research Scholar, Department of Management, (IIT ISM, Dhanbad) Jharkhand
2Head, Department of Management, (IIT ISM, Dhanbad) Jharkhand
3Head, Department of Management Studies, KIET, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
4Assistant Professor, Psychiatry Department, NRS Medical College, Kolkata, W.B.
Academics is the phase in a student's life that used to be a major reason for generating stress. This study is aimed at finding the differences in stress appraisal of undergraduate students on the pre and post intervention of anindependent variable as fear or threat of exam and marks deduction. This study was also aimed to find the difference between coping strategies among two groups of students. The sample was selected from an Engineering college. 300 students of B. Tech second year and B. Pharmacy Second year(150 students from each stream) were taken as sample for the study. The Stress Appraisal Measure [SAM]was used to measure the level of stress appraisal before and after intervention of independent variable. The Brief COPE, a questionnaire was used to assess coping strategies adapted by the students of two educational streams. It was found that i) there is significant difference between pre and post assessment of stress appraisal scores among students and ii) the level of stress among B. Tech students was much higher and significantly differed with their pharmacy counterparts. The two groups also differed significantly in terms of their coping strategies where pharmacy students were much better than the B. Tech students. SPSS version 20 was used to analyze the quantitative data statistically.
Stress, Stress Appraisal, Professional Students, Stress Measurement, Coping Strategy
