Role of Resilience on Perceived Stress among Pre University and Under Graduate Students

Abstract

In a day to day life we come across many hassles in our life and these hassles sometimes becomes stressors. Adolescent is a period of transitional stage with physical and psychological development wherein they face many such challenges and stressors. It depends on the individual ability, cognition and frame of life which help him to cope with stressors. Thus it is psychological resilience that is an individual’s ability to adapt to stress and hardship which determines his ability to cope with stress. The aim of the present study was to examine the difference in perceived stress among Pre University and Under Graduate students, as well studying the relationship between perceived stress and resilience among Pre University and Under Graduate students. In order to examine the same within group and between group designs was adopted and null hypothesis was formulated. Sample size of 50 Pre university students and 50 Under Graduate students were administered with Resilience scale and Perceived Stress Scale. The data was statistically analyzed and results indicated Pre University students had high level of Perceive stress and low level of resilience and Under Graduate students had moderate level of Perceive stress and high level of resilience. ‘t’ score of (t= 4.63, p<0.01) indicated significant difference between Pre University students and Under Graduate students in perceived stress, and r score of (r = -0.70, p<0.05) indicated negative relationship between Perceive stress and resilience. These findings indicated that Perceived stress is high among Pre University students compared to Under Graduate students; as well there existed a high negative relationship between Perceive stress and resilience. According to literature review it is found that resilience is related to positive emotions and these positive emotions during stressful experience have adaptive benefits in coping with stress (Tugad et al, 2004). Empirical evidence on resilient individual who have good coping strategies concretely elicit positive emotions, like humor, optimism, goal oriented behavior (Bergeman et al 2006) Thus this result paves the way for academicians, policy makers and educational intuitions to provide resilience training program as a part of their curricular, so that young adults and adolescents will have better stress management abilities.

Perceived Stress and Resilience among Private and Public Undergraduate University Students during Covid-19 Pandemic

“…Therefore, the regression analysis results revealed that perceived stress was a significant predictor of resilience among public and private undergraduates university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. These findings were consistent with previous studies by Petrie (2010), and Shilpa and Srimathi (2015), where the study also reported a significant relationship between perceived stress and resilience. These findings were sufficient to reject the null hypothesis.…”

“…These are supported by Tung et al (2014), where increased resilience was correlated with reduced perceived stress in university students. A study by Ebenezer et al (2020) and Shilpa and Srimathi (2015) also showed a significant negative relationship between perceived stress and resilience level among university students suggesting that stress and resilience influence one another. When a student's level of perceived stress decreased, hence the level of resilience would increases.…”

Perceived stress and resilience and their relationship with the use of mobile phone among nursing students

“…A significant negative relationship ( r =-0.7) has been seen between perceived stress and resilience of the respondents. ( 11 ) Resilience score was significantly found to be negatively correlated ( r =-0.31) with perceived stress. ( 1 )…”

“…( 7 ) Studies documented moderate to high perceived stress among nursing students. ( 11 , 19 ) Eighty seven percent of the nursing students reported to have endured higher to much higher than average level of perceived stress. ( 1 ) Similar to the present study findings, the mean stress score was found to be 16.7±4.8 in a college student group which is little lower than the present study findings.…”

“…( 10 ) Resilience is related to positive emotions and these positive emotions during stressful experience have adaptive benefits in coping with stress. ( 11 ) Thus, the individual with good resilience tends to perceive less stress in a difficult environment and overcome the stressful situation easier than the one with less resilience.…”