Examining Life Stress among Male and Female College Students

Abstract

The current research aims to study life stress among male and female college students. The current research participants included a total of 80 students (40 male and 40 Female). Age range of both the student groups ranged from 20 – 22 years. Mean age of male and female students was 21.05 and 20.08 respectively. All of these students had urban and semi – urban middle class socioeconomic background and were unmarried. All the students were studying in the third year of B. Sc (Bachelor of Science) course in Degree College Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. The data was collected through the “Personal Information Form”, “The Life Experience Survey”. The t – test was used to compare the means of the two groups. The results showed that there was no significant difference between these two groups (Male and Female) with regards to negative life change, Male students reported significantly higher positive life change than female students.