Percieved Role Stressors Amongst Students in Higher Education

Abstract

Excellence in today’s highly competitive workplace demands more than a thorough knowledge of specialized field. Achieving excellence in this dynamic era needs a comprehensive grounding in all the areas. In this scuffle of achieving excellence, performance pressures and indispensable surge for top positions, individuals and organizations are in a continuous state of tension, resulting in ‘stress’. Education sector is also undergoing a tremendous amount of stress where issues such as student retention and student progression are considered to be crucial for all universities. More-over the pressure mounts even on the students for better performance both in curricular and extracurricular activities which has become the prestige issue for both the institutions and the students. In this regard, this paper tries to throw a light on the stress amongst the students in UG and PG colleges in Mangalore. In this context 216 under graduate and 108 post graduate commerce students were contacted with a survey questionnaire and analysis be done based on the various factors. This paper tries to bring us the factors which are leading to the student’s stress and the suggestions to cope up the stress in order to improve the academic performance.