Level of Depression, Anxiety and Stress among Final Year Engineering Students in a Private Sector

Abstract

In an every individual’s life, the phase of college is considered to be one of the most exciting and memorable experience. Professional courses like Medical, Engineering, CA and MBA are considered to be one of the venerated courses in India. Parents and students prefer to do these courses, so that their life will be settled once they finish these courses. In the course of four years of learning, they get a new friends circle, have fun, they adapt themselves to a competitive environment, learn many skills, take active participation in both academic and extracurricular activities etc and groom themselves to be a successful person in the future. When the students enter into their final years, they have to struggle to get a job related to their field. During this progression of time, students get anticipate what life would be like and about their job and responsibilities, so they go through lots of problems like fear, anxiety, stress and depression. The main aim of the research is to find out the Depression, Anxiety and Stress level prevail among the final year of engineering students of a private university, consists of 1400 students. Among them the researcher collected 60 samples, have taken by using Simple random sampling by adapting lottery method. The researcher used descriptive research design. The data was collected by using standardized scale. The questionnaire consists of 42 questions and some personal information. Further the data was analysed and the finding reveals that the stress and depression level of the final year students are moderate but they are going through extremely severe anxiety.

Keywords: Depression, Anxiety, Stress