Factors Affecting Stress and Stress Management of Students Bachelor of Education Program, Faculty of Education, Uttaradit Rajabhat University

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study 1) Stress of students 2) Factors influencing stress and 3) Stress management behavior of students in the Bachelor of Education Program, Faculty of Education, Uttaradit Rajabhat University. The sample group used in the study was 335 first- to fourth-year students in the second semester of the academic year 2024. Purposive sampling was used, calculated using Taro Yamane's formula. The research instruments were self-assessment and analysis of stress and questionnaires. Data were analyzed using ready-made computer programs. The statistical methods used were percentage, mean, standard deviation, and multiple regression. The results of the study found that the sample group was female 63.88 percent, 28.95 percent were in the fourth year, 45.08 percent had a GPA of 3.00-3.50, and 56.72 percent had normal stress levels. All six factors had a moderate influence on the overall stress of the sample group (  =2.61, S.D. = 0.57). The stress management of the sample group was at a moderate level (  = 3.09, S.D. = 0.63). Health and environmental factors had a statistically significant influence on stress at the 0.01 and 0.05 levels, respectively, with a multiple correlation coefficient of 40.20 percent (R₂ = 0.402), which can be written as a regression analysis equation as follows:

        =  4.722 + 0.625 (X₁) + 0.620 (X₆)