Statistical approach to understanding students' opinions on how stress impacts their day to day life

Abstract

This paper helps to understand the student's insightful ideas of how stress affects their day-to-day lives because many students use the word stress frequently in their daily lives.  The majority of academics and researchers have started looking into the causes of stress in adults, college students, and school-aged children. This case study, the author wants to find out what students think about different aspects of stress in their daily lives. At Bishop Heber College in Trichy, India, data was obtained from under-graduate and Post-graduate mathematics students. The data was gathered from the students using Google forms. The gathered data was statistically analyzed. Descriptive statistics are mostly used to describe the information on various variables that was obtained from the questionnaire (frequency, percentages, pie, and line charts).  To ascertain whether there was a significant difference in the students' perceptions of how stress affects their daily lives, Pearson's Correlation and Chi-Square tests were also performed. Based on the data, suggestions and conclusions were drawn.