Role of Stress in Relations to Personality Factors among University Students

Abstract

The current study aims to evaluate the role of stress in relation to personality factors among university students. The sample comprised of 260 university students studying social and scientific sciences. Data were collected using two scales: the Stress Scale and the Adjective inventory. The demographic factors included in the current study were gender, departments in which they studied, and grade point average earned. The students' ages ranged from 20 to 25 (median = 22). The correlation coefficient indicates that stress has a negative link with self-efficacy but a positive association with neuroticism. According to comparisons, men university students experience less stress than female university students, while students of social sciences have more stress and poorer self-efficacy than students of natural sciences.