Spirituality and Academic Stress: Among Engineering Students

Ms. Shaivya Dixit; Mr. Sagar Varshney

doi:https://doi.org/10.51976/gla.prastuti.v9i2.922011

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Spirituality and Academic Stress: Among Engineering Students

Shaivya Dixit, Sagar Varshney

Vol 9 , Issue 2 , July - December 2020 | Pages: 40-48 | Research Paper

https://doi.org/10.51976/gla.prastuti.v9i2.922011

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1. * Shaivya Dixit, Research Scholar, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India (shaivyadixit007@gmail.com)

2. Sagar Varshney, Research Scholar, GLA University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India (sagarvarshney23@gmail.com)

In present scenario we can see that youngsters are facing stress in their day to day lives. Sometimes this is found in chronic stage also. People talked about spirituality to deal with the stress. Spirituality involves many practices like meditation, yoga, spiritual books. Today’s generation are mostly found to be least interested in such practices. So, this becomes more important to know the stress level in youngsters and their involvement in spirituality. This research is also discussing about stress and spirituality in the engineering students. Researcher also examined the relationship between spirituality and stress with reference to engineering students. Data has been collected from 200 engineering students through questionnaire. For identifying relation between spirituality and stress among engineering student’s researcher used regression analysis by using SPSS.

Keywords

Spirituality; Stress; Engineering students; Meditation; Yoga; Spiritual Books.

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