Abstract
College is a time of varied experiences and expectations wherein students are striving to give a direction to their life and make a career for themselves. Unemployment, fierce competition and insecurity are some of the many problems that the youth of India faces everyday which culminate into stress and has the potential to affect psychological health. Thus, the present study seeks to explore perceived stress and psychological wellbeing among college students and their interrelationship. A total of 281 college students (Males=174, Females= 107) in the age range of 18-24 years, participated in the study. They were administered Perceived Stress Scale and Ryff’s Scale of Psychological Wellbeing. Results revealed that perceived stress had significant negative relation with all the six dimensions of psychological wellbeing. Perceived Stress accounted for a large variance in all the dimensions of psychological wellbeing. Perceived Stress came out to be one of the major contributors to psychological health and wellbeing.
Highlights
College is a time of varied experiences and expectations wherein students are striving to give a direction to their life and make a career for themselves
The sample had a mean of 11.110 (SD= 5.1338) on perceived stress which is below average considering the range of 10-40
The results indicated that stress fully mediated the relations between socially prescribed perfectionism and three dimensions of psychological well-being, namely, autonomy, environmental mastery, and purpose in life (Chang, 2006)
Summary
College is a time of varied experiences and expectations wherein students are striving to give a direction to their life and make a career for themselves. A total of 281 college students (Males=174, Females= 107) in the age range of 18-24 years, participated in the study They were administered Perceived Stress Scale and Ryff’s Scale of Psychological Wellbeing. College students are a unique group of individuals who face specific intrapersonal, interpersonal, environmental, and academic stressors (Ross, Niebling, & Heckert, 1999). Many of these stressors may not necessarily be pertinent to other population groups (Ross, Niebling, & Heckert, 1999; Misra & McKean, 2000; Camatta & Nagoshi, 1995; Kadison & DiGeronimo, 2004). It is important to study how perceived stress influences the psychological wellbeing among youth
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