*Assistant Professor, Department. of Business Management, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana
**Professor and Head, Department of Business Management, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana
***PG Student, Department of Business Management, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana
College students are at a critical juncture of life where they prepare and look for jobs or decide to go for higher studies. They are expected to play key roles in the society after completion of their studies. They should, therefore, have stress management abilities to cope up with pressures and also to live a healthy life. The present paper is an attempt to empirically investigate two objectives: first, to investigate the factors that influence the individual stress level and second to determine the relationship between demographic variables and factors affecting stress among students. The study is based on primary data with a sample of 150 respondents drawn from colleges of Hisar district of Haryana state. Statistical tools like factor analysis and ANOVA have been used to analyse the data. The results of factor analysis reveal five important factors named as: personal problems, relationship problems, social problems, academic problems and lastly environmental problems, that influence an individual's stress levels. Factor analysis also discloses that students get more stress from personal, relationship and social problems. Further, the factors are significantly different across qualifications, family types, area and residential status.
Stress, Factor analysis, Personal problems, College students, Social problems, Academic problems, Relationship problems, Environmental problems
