Impact of Stress among College Students in Prayagraj District, Uttar Pradesh

The present study was planned to assess and find out the impact of stress among college students across gender and socio economic groups among adolescent boys and girls in the age group of 17 to 21 year. Exploratory research design was adopted for the present study and survey method was used to collect the data from college students. A sample of 300 respondents from which 150 urban students and 150 rural students, wherein 75 boys (25 each from lower, middle and upper socio economic groups) and 75 girls (25 each from lower, middle and upper socio economic groups) were selected through stratified random sampling technique. The socio economic status (SES) of the sample was ascertained using Kuppuswamy (1962) revised version of 2014 and student stress scale (Agrawal 2012) were used to identify the stress among college students. The result revealed that all the respondents were facing stress in which girls had higher stress as compared to boys. The study also revealed a significant difference among gender as well as socio economic group, in which respondents from upper socio economic group were suffering from higher level of stress as compared to their counterparts from middle and lower socio economic groups in both gender.