Personality traits, stress, and psychological needs of college students

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Sandeep (Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana) Suman Behmani (Haryana School of Business, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana) Rakesh Kumar Behmani
(Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana)

This paper tries to throw some light on the correlation between different level of stress, personality traits and psychological needs. Newcomer college students have to face many difficulties in their college life. Because of their transition period from adolescence to adulthood, they have to face many challenges in life like academic completion, leaving home for college first time in life, academic stress and difficulties in sleep pattern during exam period. Researchers have also found out some significant personality traits that are related to stress in life of college students. Researchers have also lighted on psychological counselling needs that are related to college students. This paper also tries to determine how personality traits, psychological stress, and psychological needs are related to each other.