Stress, well-being and sleep disturbance among hostellers and non-hosteller students

Pages: 1131-1133
Umang Narang and Nudrat Jahan (Department of Clinical Psychology, SGT University Gurugram, Haryana)

College is place where students have to make several adjustments. To reach the collage day scholars had to travel daily and Students living in hostel are struggling to adjust in different environment. For some students living in hostel or daily travel may not be challenging, but for others may cause stress. High level of stress or chronic stress can affect well-being of the person. Quality of sleep is one parameter which is found to be sensitive to stress level. It is very important to understand the level of stress, well being and sleep disturbance among students to maintain their academic performance and ensure mental and physical well-being. Therefore this study was carried with following objective. To study the stress, well-being and sleep disturbance among hosteller and non-hostellers. There would be correlation among stress, well-being and sleep disturbance. And, there would be significant difference between hostellers and non hostellers in their stress, well-being and sleep disturbance. Descriptive correlational design used for study and study was conducted on a sample of 100 college students from SGT University, among which 50 were hosteller and 50 were non-hostellers. For this study DASS-21 Scale, PGI Well-Being Scale and Sleep Quality Scale were used. Significant relation was found among stress, well-being and sleep disturbance (p<.05. & there was significant difference in stress, well-being and sleep disturbance among hosteller and non-hosteller students (p<.01). The level of stress and sleep disturbance was high among hostellers while level of well-being was high among non-hosteller. There was positive relation among stress and sleep disturbance and negative relationship were found between well being and stress and sleep disturbance.