Effect of Spiritual Counseling on Stress Level of College Going Students

Mrs. Aarti Kaiwart; Mr. Manish Gupta; Dr. Hemadri Sao; Dr. Santosh Vishvakarma

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| Published: December 25, 2015

Effect of Spiritual Counseling on Stress Level of College Going Students

Mrs. Aarti Kaiwart

Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar (U.K.), India Google Scholar More about the auther

, Mr. Manish Gupta

Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar (U.K.), India Google Scholar More about the auther

, Dr. Hemadri Sao

Professor & Head, Department of psychology, Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar (U.K.), India Google Scholar More about the auther

, Dr. Santosh Vishvakarma

Associate Professor, Department of psychology, Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar (U.K.), India Google Scholar More about the auther

DIP: 18.01.060/20150301

DOI: 10.25215/0301.060

ABSTRACT

Today Stress is a part of our daily life work. Stress free life is nearly impossible to all people. But management of stress can be life easeful to live. Spiritual counseling can be one of the best tools for stress management. This research explores the effectiveness of spiritual counseling on stress level among college going students. Two group pre-post designs were used on Sample of 50 (25 in experimental and 25 in control group) college students. They were selected by incidental sampling method from the various colleges of Chhattisgarh. The age of the subjects ranged from 18 to 22 years. The experimental group was regularly exposed to Therapeutic intervention for 45 days. During this intervention the researcher discussed the problems with students & suggested them with solution through the reference of “Amritwani” heard every day. Data were collected through the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) by “Cohen”. For Statistical analysis of data “t-test.” Used. Results indicate highly significant effect of spiritual counseling on stress of college going students at 0.01 level of confidence.

Keywords

Stress, Spiritual Counseling, College Students

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How to cite this article: A Kaiwart, M Gupta, H Sao, S Vishvakarma. (2015). Effect of Spiritual Counseling on Stress Level of College Going Students. International Journal of Indian Psychology, 3 (1), DOI: 10.25215/0301.060, DIP: 18.01.060/20150301