SPIRITUALITY AND STRESS

Abstract

Spirituality is to ‘know’ who you are and the knowledge of yourself understanding the highest spiritual qualities and attributes which are love, peace, purity and bliss. Spirituality is a resilient and controversial variable that has evidenced an ability to help people better cope with stress. This empirical research paper attempts to identify the relation between spirituality and stress. Four types of indicators are used for measurement of stress such as behavioural indicators, emotional indicator, sleep indicator and personal habits. Hypothesis said if spirituality is high then stress will be low or if spirituality is low then stress will be high. In college the stress of study affects the student. Data is collected through the questionnaire based on spirituality index and stress index. 75 students have taken as participants to find out the rate of spirituality in student and correlation is used for determine the relation between spirituality and stress. The objective of the study was to effect of spirituality on stress.