Journal of Religion and Health

, Volume 56, Issue 2, pp 388–399 | Cite as

Exploration of Relationship Between Stress and Spirituality Characteristics of Male and Female Engineering Students: A Comprehensive Study

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Abstract

This observational paper endeavours to recognize the connection between spirituality and stress. Four types of indicators are utilized for the estimation of anxiety, vis-à-vis, behavioural indicators, emotional indicators, sleep indicators and personal habits. As per pre-documented theory, if spirituality is high within an individual, then his/her stress will be low and vice versa. In college, the stress of education and scoring grades influences the understudy. Information is gathered through a survey in the light of spirituality index and stress index. Findings prove that the indicators of the stress are more visible in female students. Apart from this, there has been not much substantial study in the area of stress and spirituality among college students. Hence, the main purpose of this study was to discuss the various types of stress and effects of spirituality on the engineering students belonging to the age group of 21–26 years, prioritizing the indicators of stress as per the gender of students. The entire study constituted of a sample group of 200 participants, and for the entire process, correlation analysis was used to find the relative relation between spirituality and stress among girls and boys. T test is used for rejection of the null hypothesis. The article focuses on the current issues that students have been facing in the twenty-first century. Result of the study showed that there is a negative relationship between the spirituality and stress of male and female students. Moreover, the article provides unique contribution to the literature and also offers suggestions for generating new research ideas that can be used to ameliorate the problems that plague individuals and organizations in today’s world. This is the first article which covers the spirituality and stress of the engineering student and discusses the impact on young adults, as well as highlighting certain ways to overcome stress and enhance spirituality.

Keywords

Stress Spirituality Age group Engineering students Research scholars 
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Acknowledgments

I would like to express my grateful gratitude to all those who helped and supported me. I want to dedicate this paper to my mother. I would like to mention here special credits to the students of IIT for keenness and decent revert. At last, my supervisor who always motivates me and increases my morale towards an intuitive research.

Author contribution

Radha Yadav prepared the questionnaire and collected the primary data. I have done data analysis and have written the paper’s theory, results and discussions as well. Ashu Khanna and Dharmendra Singh wrote the introduction part and made changes in the whole theory as required.

Funding

As I am a research scholar, I get scholarship from UGC-JRF, but on this specific paper, no funding and no sponsorship provided by any organization/source.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Polymer and Process EngineeringIndian Institute of TechnologyRoorkeeIndia
  2. 2.Department of Management StudiesDelhi College of Technology and ManagementPalwalIndia

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