Covid-19 Pandemic Related Perceived Stress and Coronavirus Anxiety Levels Among the Students of North East India During the Peak of the 2nd Wave

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to find out the level of Covid-19 Pandemic Related Perceived Stress and Coronavirus Anxiety levels among Higher Secondary School, Graduate and Post Graduate students of North East India during the 2nd wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, 124 students from North-East participated in the study 52 Males and 72 Females, Pandemic-Related Perceived Stress Scale and Coronavirus Anxiety Scales were used to assess the students, the scales were disseminated randomly where online tools such as Google forms was utilized through the internet. As the data acquired did not follow normal distribution Non-parametric tests were used on the data acquired, surprisingly descriptive statistics showed that in the overall samples Pandemic related perceived stress and Coronavirus Anxiety levels are very low among students of North East India and significant differences between males and females students did not exist for both the variables, Coronavirus anxiety (U = .982) and Pandemic Related Perceived Stress (U = .615) Significant positive correlation existed between the variables of Coronavirus anxiety and Pandemic Related Perceived Stress (r = .349) which is expected.