A study on stress and its influencing factors on business school students during their academic curriculum

Abstract

It is usually observed that Business School students undergo tremendous stress during their academics. There is a high rate of psychological induced physiological illness among them which lead to poor academic performance and frequent absenteeism. The purpose of this study is to identify the level of stress and the factors that influenced to the stress among Business school students. The factors that are considered in the present study are Academic Factors, Physical factors Social factors and Emotional factors. The study instrument is a 28 items questionnaire. 100 management students participated in this study. Method used in this study is surveying method and the sampling has been done by simple random sampling. The reliability of the instrument is 0.8301. The data is analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) for Windows. Descriptive statistic in terms of mean and frequency is used to analyze the level of stress. The inference statistic- Pearson correlation, t- test and ANNOVA are used to test the hypothesis. Results showed that the level of stress among Business school’s students were relatively high. Male students experienced greater stress than females. Stress was not found to differ significantly on the basis of stay at hostel, model of travel, time spent in travel every day, medium of study in school,. The most dominant stress’ factor was work load and strictness in discipline.