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Engineering has become one of the most chosen streams for graduation. In the recent past, many cases have been reported which increases the concern about mental health of students during the undergraduate engineering program. The aim of this study is to determine the level and source of stress and its severity. Stress is a necessary part of our lives and can have both beneficial and negative effects. The pressure response of stress is determined by our perception of an event, change, or problem. Controlling and balancing our lives in order to deal with stress can be a challenging task. An important first step is to identify the extent to which people are affected under stress in their lives and looking for strategies to improve. In this article, we have proposed a Perceived Stress Scale based model and methodology to gauge different types of stress levels among the engineering students. Further, co-relation between the calculated stress levels and the demographic income classes is established.
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Singh, A., Kumar, D. (2021). Gauging Stress Among Indian Engineering Students. In: Dutta, P., Mandal, J.K., Mukhopadhyay, S. (eds) Computational Intelligence in Communications and Business Analytics. CICBA 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1406. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75529-4_14
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