An assessment of role stress experienced by management students in India- Suggestive measures and strategies

Consistent increase in the rate of psychosomatic and mental diseases and the feeling of dissatisfaction with life in general among majority of people in present day world very well reflects the ill consequences for high psychosocial stress being experienced by the present generation. In the recent years while on one hand the quality of life has increased on the other hand the stresses involved too have gone up. Stress thus becomes inevitable in life, and with increasing problems, aspirations and uncertainties associated with socio-economic, political and cultural upheavals, it is only likely to increase. Of late we have seen that there has been a movement towards greater accountability and transparency in higher education and therefore consideration of student issues becomes imminent. Today, every university administrator is aware of the challenges that higher education faces. Some of the traditional challenges are financial and managerial while the other contemporary challenges are how to strike a balance between knowledge and information. One of the most challenging aspects for current higher education institutes thus becomes proliferation of roles that members have to undertake during their everyday educational practice. Stress has become an everyday word being used in the modern day world, yet remarkably few people use the term stress in a proper manner or even bother to attempt for a clear cut definition of the term stress. In Psychology stress refers to a ?state of organism resulting from some interaction with the environment.? The term stress has been originally derived from Latin, where it indicates hardship, strain, adversity or afflictions. Various terms have been used synonymously with stress, anxiety, frustrations, conflicts, tension, pressure and strain.