Published June 30, 2023 | Version v1
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Relationship between Stress and Coping Strategies among Hosteled Students

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  • 1. BS Scholar, Department of Psychology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan.

Contributors

  • 1. BS Scholar, Department of Psychology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan.
  • 2. Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan.

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Abstract: The current study aims to analyze the relationship between stress and coping strategies among hosteled students of Abdul Wail Khan University Mardan, Pakistan. Hostel is for those who stay in other area for their education, job purpose. Hostelled students experience higher level of stress than students who lived off-campus. Some of them have found higher level of stress than those who stayed in home. Hostelled students use coping strategies to cope with their stress. Coping strategies refers to an action. The researchers investigate the relationship of stress and coping strategies. For this purpose the researchers collected 200 data from hostelled students 100 from male 100 from female at Abdul Wail Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) made up our sample. This study discovered that stress and coping strategies there is a negative and low association between dependent and independent variable. The results additionally indicate that within the regression analysis, which sequentially explicates the variations stage by stage, there exists an inverse relationship between stress and stress coping strategies. Furthermore, statistical scrutiny reveals a statistically significant but low negative correlation between stress coping strategies and stress at a predetermined level of significance.

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2023-06-30

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