Causes, Impact of Academic Stress among the Students of Higher Educational Institutions and Educational Resolution of Stress in Kolkata, West Bengal

Abstract

The changeable educational environment of the students from school level up to college level is inherently stressful for the students of higher educational institutions. It may cause psychological, academic, social and physical problems to them. The students of the higher educational institutions influence different types of chronic and acute stress which reflects their academic life, social and personal life. Specifically, majorly the college students deal with academic stress throughout their college life and that may cause many health problems. The present research study investigates to identify different causes, level of impact of stress and provide educational resolution to obstruct academic stress among the students of higher educational institutions in Kolkata, West Bengal. For the purpose of this present study 336 undergraduate and postgraduate college students from different academic schools in arts, science, commerce, and management were selected. Samples were selected by random sampling technique. The data collected by survey method, questionnaire measured the cause and impact of stress among the students of higher educational institutions. The collected data analysed by different descriptive statistics mean, standard deviation and analysed data presented in the form of tables. Subsequently on the basis of the analysed result of the research study, it is found that the major cause of stress is academic stress among the students and male students are majorly impacted by stress throughout their academic life.