Stress Anxiety and Depression Among Science and Arts Students

Authors: [1] Mohammad Amin Wani [2] Dr. R. Sankar [3] Rakshantha, P. [4] Nivatha A. L. S. [5] Sowparnika C. E. [6] Marak L. D. B

Pages: 48-52

Abstract:

In present days stress, anxiety and depression is commonly found among the students globally. These psychological problems badly affect the health of our students. The cardinal object of the present study was to investigate the effect of gender and faculty on stress, anxiety and depression. Further the study also strived to find the level of stress, anxiety and depression among boys and girls; science and arts students. Method: The present study consisted sample of 260 students divided in two groups (Boys and Girls) each group has 130 students. Further these two groups are equally subdivided into two more faculty wise (Science and Arts) groups with 65 students in each group. Levels of stress, anxiety and depression was measured by Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) constructed by Lovibond & Lovibond (1995). For data analysis and hypothesis testing mean and ANOVAwas applied. Findings: The findings shows that girl students are prone to stress, anxiety and depression than boys as they have high percentage in all three areas (Stress 57.67%, Anxiety 90.77% and Depression 60.77%) than boys (Stress 43.85 %, Anxiety 89.22% and Depression 43.08%). Similarly science students have high level of stress, anxiety and depression (Stress 73.86%, Anxiety 96.14% and Depression 88.46 %) than arts students (Stress 27.69%, Anxiety 73.84% and Depression 15.38%). The results also revealed both gender and faculty have significant effect on stress, anxiety and depression as all obtained “F” ratio’s was found significant at 0.05 level of significance. Conclusion: - On the basis of the findings in the present study we may conclude that both gender and faculty are influential factors in stress, anxiety and depression.