Abstract
Any change that creates physical, emotional, or psychological discomfort is referred to as stress. The psychological impression of pressure, on the one hand, and the body's response to it, on the other, which involves various systems ranging from metabolism to muscles to memory, are both referred to as stress. Psychological stress is described as a specific interaction between a person and their environment that the person perceives as exhausting or exceeding his or her resources and putting his or her well-being in jeopardy.
Stress management refers to a set of practices that a person might use to develop efficient coping mechanisms for dealing with psychological stress. Stress management is the use of psychological techniques to lessen physical reactions to stressful environmental events (such as muscle tension, high blood pressure, sleeplessness, and stomach discomfort). These uneasy feelings could be linked to unpleasant emotions including worry, despair, rage, pain, or sickness.
It was found that the impact of stress management resulted in reduction in BMI, stress and greater satisfaction in sexual life among young adults Dimou, P. A. et.al. (2013 ). It was found that stress management may enhance the cystic fibrosis patient’s perceived control of his/her situation, reduce the level of pain and anxiety, and enhance the quality of life Spirito, A. et.al. (1984).
In the present study, an attempt has been made to determine the stress management skills of young adults aged between 20 to 30 years. The subject has been taken from the students of UG and PG level of Lovely Professional University. Stress Management Scale of Dr. Vandana Kaushik and Dr. Namrata Arora have been used for the present study.
Results of the study indicate that both male and female subjects belong to “Group D” category which means they have shown moderate stress management with respect to stress. In comparison of the scores, it has found that female subjects mean score is higher than the mean scores of the male subjects (male = 111.1, female = 119.2). From the standard deviation score, in comparison between male and female subject, it has found (male = 23.51, female = 23.11) indicates that male subjects have shown slightly greater variability of scores compared to the female subjects. t- value indicates (1.10 with df = 38) that the mean scores of both the groups are statistically significant at 0.05 level. Therefore it may be said that the difference of scores of both the groups are statistically significant.
Hence, it may be concluded that both the groups have shown moderate amount of stress management skills and females have shown greater skills in stress management compared to males.