Identifying Symptoms of Stress among University Students

Stress in modern life lead to several mental, emotional, physical, social, spiritual problems among students. The present study was carried out to compare the stress-related symptoms among male and female students studying in professional and non-professional courses. Stress Symptoms Check List prepared by Husain (2006) was administered to them. Result indicates that professional and non-professional students perceived the same level of stress related symptoms. Female student as compared to male students perceived higher level of mental stress, environmental stress, social stress and spiritual stress-related symptoms.