Perceived Stress of College Students: A Study on Rajshahi District in Bangladesh

The study was aimed to investigate the effect of gender, institution type and academic group on perceived stress among the college students of Rajshahi district of Bangladesh. There were 120 participants (60 male students and 60 female students) who were selected conveniently from two government and two non-government colleges of Rajshahi district. The four colleges were selected randomly. Bangla version (Keya, 2006) of Perceived Stress Questionnaire was used to measure perceived stress of the respondents. The collected data were analyzed by applying t-test, and one-way ANOVA through IBM SPSS version 25. The result revealed that no significant difference was found between male students and female students in terms of perceived stress score (t= 1.416, p>0.05). The result showed that there is no significant effect of institution type on perceived stress of the respondents (t=1.815, p>0.05). The finding also proven that no significant difference was found among the respondent academic group (Science, Humanities and commerce) in terms of perceived stress (F=0.772, p>0.05).