• Parasa John Kennedy

Now-a-days Stress has become inevitable companion in all walks of life. Therefore, even students too are not exempted from these unavoidable circumstances of stress. Students stress is an unavoidable phenomenon which is often seen in their lives. Stress could originate from the external environment or from the psyche of the individual. Stress is defined as the response to events that threaten or challenge a person Stress can take its toll in many ways, producing both physiological and psychological consequences. Post graduate students were easily target of stress than the graduate students. Factors such as physical and mental, family, job, relationship and social were the main source of stress among the students. There is always a dilemma for the students regarding its performance in exam and to secure a good job. There were some other factors such as Behavioral, psychological and psychosomatic which contributes to the stress. Disturbed relationship and alcohol used show highest and lowest percentage of behavioral factors. Anger, low self-esteem, low satisfactions, depression and anxiety were some of the important psychological factors which were observed among students. On the other hand, there were different psychosomatic factors such as headache, sleep problems, stomach discomfort, tachycardia, ulcers and high blood pressure was involved. These factors contribute to the stress among the graduate and post-graduate students. In this study it is found that there were different percentages of stress symptoms among the male and female students. Headache, blood pressure, anxiety, hair loss, back pain, neck pain, appetite and skin rashes were more predominately observed among females. On other hand inadequate sleep, hair fall, erratic moods, heart diseases and depressions and mouth ulcers were found to be more often in males.

Stress, Behavioural, Psychological, Psychosomatic, relationship and Biofeedback.

"A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON STRESS AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS OF KRISHNA DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 9, page no.542-548, September 2017, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1709081.pdf

"A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON STRESS AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS OF KRISHNA DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 9, page no. pp542-548, September 2017, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1709081.pdf