Das Ambika Bharti
Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, Bihar
The increasing stress among the Indian emerging adults and its debilitating effects
on their health are major concerns of the present time. In today’s world, stress is an
omnipresent factor of life and individuals mainly in their early 20s are mostly affected
by it. Many scholars have identified the college going age as the most stress prone
time of life. The major sources of stress in early adulthood can be grossly classified as
intrapersonal stress (38%), environmental stress (28%), interpersonal stress (19%), and
academic stress (15%)(Ross, Niebling& Heckert, 1999).Moreover, financial problems,
ambiguity about future plans, academic grade anxiety and relations with opposite sex
have also been found as the risk factors for inducing stress
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