Academic stress among professional students: An empirical study

Academic stress is a significant issue among students and dealing with student's psychological stress as it is associated with mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation. The latest available data indicates that more students in Asian countries such as India, China, Singapore, Korea, Japan and Chinese Taiwan are the victim of academic stress compared to students from western countries. Students have different expectations, goals and values that they want to fulfill, which is only possible if they are integrated with that of the institution. The purpose of the present study is to explore the study of academic stress among students as well to examine the relationship between all factors of academic stress (personal factors, educational factors and environmental factors)among UG and PG students. For this purpose a research instrument was developed and the data was collected from UG and PG programs run by TeerthankerMahaveer University, Moradabad. The sample size was 179 out of which there were 91 female students and 88 male students. Respondents’ age ranged from 18 to 25 years. Reliability and validity of the questionnaire was tested and finalized. Statistical tools such as t- test and Correlation were applied to come up with concrete results to further put forth certain recommendations to ease up academic stress.