Stress, anxiety and coping among engineering students at selected college of Pokhara, Kaski, Nepal

Stress has been identified as a 20^th century disease and has been viewed as a complex and dynamic transaction between individual and their environments. Stress can be regarded as a psychological threat, in which the individual perceives a situation as a potential threat.

To assess the level of stress, anxiety and coping among engineering students at Pokhara University, Pokhara, Kaski, Nepal and to assess the association between demographic variables with level of stress and level of anxiety respectively and correlation between level of stress and level of anxiety.

The descriptive survey approach was adopted for present study and conducted at Pokhara University, Pokhara, Kaski, Nepal. Purposive sampling technique was used to select samples and sample size was 182. The tool consisted of socio demographic proforma, Perceived Stress Scale, Zung Self Anxiety Rating Scale and Brief Cope Scale. data was collected by self administered questionnaire. data analysis and interpretation was done using SPSS for Windows Version 16.0.

Majority of students have moderate level of stress and most of students experienced mild level anxiety. Most of the students use “planning” category of coping. There is significant association between level of stress and type of family, reason for choosing engineering and non significant association between age, sex, level of education, sources of income and residence and there is significance association between level of anxiety and reason for choosing engineering and non significant association between level of anxiety and are, sex, level of education, type of family, sources of income, residence and reason for choosing engineering. There is positive correlation between level of stress and level of anxiety at 0.05 level of significance(r = 0.171).

The present study concludes that majority of students have moderate level of stress. Most of the students use “planning” category of coping. There is no significant association between socio demographic variables and level of stress and there is significant association between level of anxiety and socio demographic variables. There is significant correlation between stress and anxiety at 0.05 level of significance (r = 0.171).