Authors:
M. Monica
1
;
Chaitra V. H.
2
and
G. Ramanaiah
3
Affiliations:
1
Assistant Professor, Department of MBA, Acharya Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India
;
2
Assistant Professor, Department of PG, Presidency University, Bengaluru, India
;
3
Professor, Amity Business School, Faculty of Management Studies & Behavioural Sciences, Amity University, Haryana, India
Keyword(s):
Perceived Stress, PSQ, COVID 19, Higher education in India, Gender.
Abstract:
The international epidemic COVID 19 is the concern for public and poses many psychological challenges. The research data are required to tackle the adverse effect due to COVID 19 during lockdown situation. The crisis has affected the entire world, which has increased the stress levels amongst the students, employees, corporate managements, traders, farmers etc. All the citizens are facing different problems due to COVID 19 and lockdown. The study is specifically focused on students and main aim of the study is to assess the Perceived Stress amongst students of higher education in India. The 30-Item Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) along with questions on demographics was used to gather the data from the respondents. The online survey was conducted using Snowball Sampling technique due to lockdown condition in India. The study included 280 respondents from major cities in India. The result concludes that the perceived stress during lockdown due to COVID 19 ranges from moderate to
high amongst these participants surveyed. The perceived stress does not vary with gender of respondents, but the perceived stress varies with age of the respondents. The major reasons identified using Friedman test are irritation, feeling agitated etc.
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