Academic stress and depression among college students

Academic stress and depressions are the burning causes of suicide and suicidal attempt for college students. There are lots of cases reporting by media about the college students’ suicide in daily newspapers that make too much pressure and stress on parents, society, institutions and maybe also in government. Keeping in this view it is today’s need to investigate the causal factors that affecting psychologically on students mentality which can help us to understand that what kind of thoughts running inside the mind of students, because of this, the present study is designed to study the academic stress and depression among college students. 360 participants (180 male, 180 female) age ranged 17 – 21yearswere administered tostudy. Students were asked to solve Academic Stress Scale for College Students (ASSCS) and Depression Scale (MDS).The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, student ‘t’ test and Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. Results revealed that there is a significant gender difference between academic stress and depression among college students. There is a significant positive relation between academic stress and depression among college students. The level of academic stress is significantly affected by student’s depression. Findings from present study help to recover the students suffering from academic stress and depression.