A Study on Factors Affecting Stress Among Engineering Students and Preference of Students Towards Innovative Interventions

Abstract

Stress is an accommodative response to the external surroundings that results in physical, psychological and behavioral deviations. It is also an adaptive response, mediated by individual characteristics or psychological methods which can result to any external action, situation, or event that special physical and or psychological demand . Stressors originate at the individual and cluster level. Stress is said to be the outcome of unfulfilled demands due to constraints. Constraints which are responsible for inducing stress are called stressors. In this research, different stressors and its impact on stress- inducing factors are studied since engineering is started in the British period and it is now expanded to almost every field. This expansion had further lead to the mushrooming of engineering college across India without a standard in the quality of education, which eventually lead to stress among engineering students across India and especially In-around Chennai they are facing huge stress but unfortunately, factors affecting stress as whole and intervention to reduce stress was not explored in the past by the researchers keeping this point in mind an In-depth Review of Literature was carried out for stress among students of higher education India in that about 150-200 reviews have been done. In which engineering literatures on stress constitutes on an average of 20-30% total literatures reviewed based on which research gaps, research questions and objectives were framed for the study. This research follows both Explorative and Descriptive Research Design. A total of 380 valid and useful responses were collected from AICTE approved institutions from Chennai region. Sampling is done using a modified scale developed and validated by Burger (2009).