Academic Stress and Coping Strategies among University Students: Case Study of university of the Punjab

Abstract

Present study was intended to find the effects of academic stress on individual tendencies to cope with different difficult situations interrelated to learning process. Moreover, it was designed to identify the association between academic stress and used strategies to cope up with the stress. Abilities to understand new learning process and subjects are reassembled to traits which individual adopt to confront a difficult situation. It was a quantitative research by nature and Sample of (N=200) students (n=100 hostilities, n=100 day scholar) were selected using purposive sampling technique from University of the Punjab, Lahore. Correlation analysis was used to test hypothesis of relation between variables, whereas, test of Independent sample of two groups was conducted to find the difference of means of two groups (hostility and day scholar). Results found the significant relationship between variables and coping strategies as significant predictor for academic stress. Mean scores of hostiles and day scholar students are different for academic stress and coping strategies. The study findings suggested that coping startagies need to be measured at higher and secondary level to undersatand the academica and social adjustment of students.