Monitoring and Management of Stress A study of Engineering Students using Digital Electronics Meter

Abstract

Stress embodies the experience of emotions or bodily strain. Stress may be experienced in two ways i.e emotional or physical. Emotional stress tends to be found there where the situations perceived by people are tough and intriguing. So far as physical stress concerned, it is the reaction of the body due to various triggers, the pain experienced after surgery is an example of physical stress. There is a participation of control and tension reduction in stress management which takes place in stressful situations by making emotional and physical changes. In order to know how much changes takes place, it is important to know the level of stress and the dire need for attaining the change. Our present educational system has become quite mechanical and stressful, and fails to nurture an all round development of the personalities of the students. Therefore, an urgent need of an hour is to remodel the education system, so that it may fulfill the dreams of our Father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi who defines education - a system of an all-round drawing out best in child and man, in body, mind and spirit. Any educational system, which does not aim to develop the students in a holistic manner, will fail to produce true human being since they are going to contribute significantly in the society in various ways. The present study is a scientific effort in stress management of engineering students. The students (males as well as females) were opted from the four common streams of both Universities viz. i) Civil , ii) Computer, iii) Electronics and Communication, and iv) Mechanical Engineering and two engineering universities. The Stress level was assessed with the help of a self-structured questionnaire. ANOVA was performed to study whether there is a significant difference in the factors influencing stress on the basis of gender, age, engineering streams and nature of University. The three types of stress considered for the study include: academic stress, personal stress, financial stress.