Efficacy of Art of Living program on stress management and coping strategies

Abstract

The effectiveness of art of living intervention program for stress management and coping strategies among MCA students of university of Rajasthan, Jaipur city in Rajasthan state was examined. A sample of 30 students within the age range of 20-25 year was purposively taken as subjects. Two forms of measuring level of stress i.e. Rate yourself for stress and your resistance to vulnerability of stress developed by millers & Smith (1985) and coping strategies for handling stressful counter by Folkman & Lazarus (1987) were administered as pre test, post test after the intervention and as follow up after one month. the finding disclosed that: (a) level of stress was significantly decreased after intervention. (b) significant differences were observed in coping strategies for handling the stressful counter.