The purpose of this survey research is to study the level of students’ stress, factors affecting their stress, and
techniques and problems in managing stress. The sample group was 478 undergraduate students at King Mongkut’ s
Institute of Technology North Bangkok. A questionnaire including a stress assessment test from the Mental Health
Department was employed in the data collection. The results showed that most students encountered stress in normal
level (51.43%). The first factor affecting their stress was being unable to complete reading tasks on time (89.7%), the
second was worry that they could not handle tests (89.5%), The methods used most frequently to cope with stress
were watching movies, listening to music and watching television (97.5%), followed by making their mind calm, accepting
the situations and letting go (90.2%). The problems in managing stress were their laziness and drowsiness (73.4%). The
students who had different personal characteristics, learning problems , traffic problems and environment problems did not
have different amount of stress. The students who had problems in terms of examination, their relationship with friends and
lovers, family, health, money and work, and those who did not have these problems had different amount of stress
with a statistical level of 0.05 .
Keywords : Stress, Stress Management
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