A Study on Depression and Academic Stress among College Students of Kashmir

Abstract

Depression has emerged as a leading mental health ailment globally in the contemporary era. Moreover it has had its ramifications on adolescents especially the college going ones. Although, several studies have been focused on the theme, but the present paper primarily focuses on the association of depression with academic stress among college students in Kashmir. The data was gathered by means of the Educational Stress Scale, which was used by Sun and colleagues in 2011. The statistical observations were carried out using product moment correlation method of Pearson. According to a study, academic stress and depression are linked. The study was conducted to investigate the relationship between academic stress and depression among Kashmiri students. A sample of 500 individuals was gathered from different districts of the division using randomization method.