A study of Factors Influencing Stress Among College Student

Abstract

Background & objectives: Being a student can be the most interesting time o f one's life. New friends, new places and new challenges can make a student life stressful. The perfonnance and learning capability o f the students in academics generally gets affected when they confront with problems like physical, social, problems related to family, and emotional. As a result, it is important that individuals develop different strategies in order to manage stressfid situations. Every educational institution has its own values and systems, and hence there would be difference in the indicators, reasons and results o f stress. The present paper has empirically investigated two objectives: first, to investigate the factors that influence the individual stress level, and second to develop a model framework fo r effective stress management among students.