The purpose of this study is to assess perceived levels of stress experienced by adult college students. A second purpose is to detect the primary sources/factors of perceived stress among adult college students.

Perceived Stress Scale ( PSS ) (see attached survey)

is a global scale and identifies the factors influencing or influenced by stress appraisal. It is a 14 -item scale which measures the degree to which situations in one’s life is appraised as stressful during the past month. There are seven negative and seven positive questions for which the subjects were required to choose from a scale of 5 alternatives ‘never’ ‘almost never’ ‘sometimes’ ‘fairly often’ ‘very often’ relating to their feeling of being stressed on a 0-4 scale. The 7 positive items were reverse scored and added up to the 7 negative items to get the total score.

Research Questions

The following questions will be considered for analysis in this study:

1. What do adult college students perceive to be their main source(s) of stress?
2. What are the specific factors correlated with perceived stress levels in different education levels.
3. What differences exist in the following variables (gender, age, race, and class standings) for perceived levels of stress?

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