Analyzing the Sources of Academic Stress among the Undergraduate Medical College Students

A. SNEHAJA; VIJAYA MANI

Volume : VI, Issue : IV, April - 2016

Analyzing the Sources of Academic Stress among the Undergraduate Medical College Students

A. Snehaja, Vijaya Mani

Abstract :

Academic Stress among college students has been a topic of interest for ages. College students experience high level of stress due to various stressors.The cross–sectional research aims to determine the prevalence and the factors associated with stress among undergraduate medical students. A survey of randomly selected students of a Medical College in Nepal was conducted based on a questionnaire. The sample consisted of 150 students drawn through simple random sampling method. The questionnaire had items categorized under academic and non–academic issues. .The overall stress mean level was found to be 2.89. Overall Stress level mean for female medical students was found to be slightly above that pertaining to the male students. The Results showed that among the academic sources of stress, fear of failure factor was found to be the major contributor to stress and limited time for recreation and home–sickness were found to be the major non academic sources of stress.