A study on symptoms of stress on college students using combined disjoint block fuzzy cognitive maps (CDBFCM)

Abstract

Going through college is stressful for everybody. Caused by many reasons, the stress is present whether one is in their first year of college or their last. However, most seniors have an easier time dealing with stress because they have experience handling it. Most of the reasons for so much stress fall into one of three categories: academic stress, that is, anything to do with studying for classes, financial stress, which has to do with paying for school, and personal stress, which is stress associated with personal problems in college. College students experience many effects of stress and depression. They are Physical symptoms, Emotional symptoms, Cognitive symptoms. In this paper the main symptoms of stress on college students is analyzed using Combined Disjoint Block Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (CDBFCM). This method is introduced by W.B. Vasantha Kandasamy and A.Victor Devadoss is analyzed in this paper.The Combined Disjoint Block FCM is defined in this method becomes effective when the number of concepts can be grouped and are large in number. In this paper we analyzed the problems and find out the main symptoms of stress using neutrosophic tool. This paper has five sections. First section gives the information about the development of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and about the symptoms of stress on college students. Second section gives the preliminaries of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Combined Disjoint Block Fuzzy Cognitive Maps. In section three we explain the method of determining the hidden pattern. In the fourth section, we give the concepts of problem. Final section gives the conclusion based on our study. MSC: 03B52 03E72