Sci.Int.(Lahore),27(6),6211-6218 ,2015 ISSN 1013-5316; CODEN: SINTE 8 6211 Nov.-Dec. PRACTICES OF STRESS MANAGEMENT ADOPTED BY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS Zafar Iqbal Butt 1 , Khalid Rashid 2 , Tanveer Akhtar 3 , Nauman Saeed 1 , Muhammad Abdul Jabar Adnan 1 , Nouman Mansoor 1 , Rida Hamid Butt 1 1 Department of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, University of the Punjab 2 Department of Education, University of Lahore 3 Department of Zoology, University of the Punjab *Corresponding author’s E-mail: zafarbutt666@hotmail.com ABSTRACT: Stress is being encountered by the citizens at large, professionals with reservation of situations and environments. In reality the nature of stress may have variety individual to individual and situation to situation. Stress may be identified in the context of individuals’ life as the financial, social and family issues oriented. Like all individuals, students in general and university students in particular are no exception and fall prey to stress like the common citizens which put them in a curbing position and as such make them constrained to adjust to the severity and of stress. Stress may be described as the body's reaction to a constraint that requires a physical, mental or emotional adaptation, adjustment or positive response. Students may deal with stress situations by changing the scenario, undergoing exercise, involving in gossips, asserting their position caliber or skill, diverting the feeling of labor into an enchantment, falling prey to drugs and sedatives ,taking excessive food of liking, finding time passing activity, deep breathing, and entering into chats with the loved ones. Modes of stress management even in the same community does not remain uniform as such stress management techniques used by a majority of the population around the globe is seen to be medicine use, reduction of activities, yoga, tai chi, religious prayers, massage, crying, and sleeping. The major objective of the study was to view the practices adopted by the students to manage their stress. The major research question of the study was how students manage their stress. The population of the study was university students. Selected through a convenient sampling technique questionnaire was the tool to gather data from the university students. The Chi-square test was applied to see the significance of difference among respondents’ perception about the statements of the questionnaire. t-test and ANOVA were also used the view the significance difference about opinions and the effect of the demographic variables of the respondents like gender, age, qualification, parental source of income and locale where they live. Results show that majority of university students does not participate into complex physical activity to manage the stress rather they seek refuge in religious activities to manage their stress. INTRODUCTION Stress is an everyday experience, study under question is an effort to unfold that how the intellectuals encounter and shed off the stress in a variety of situations which may have a link with the environment we live in, or the friendships we enter into [1]. Stress is not as a matter of course destructive, rather mild and mellow stress most of the times serve as the energizer and mode moderator. Intensive stress poses, therapeutic and social issues causing entering into the phase of withdrawnness [2]. Student life is energizing however, it can likewise be exceptionally compelled and distressing as it is mostly a transitional phase [3]. A high push level may influence scholarly exhibitions as well as all well being of those who remained under study [4]. Many students say that the stress they come across emerges out of the job situations or the lifestyle they follow [5]. These may be due to overload or leisure experiences of the past capacitance to the Environmental and Job push: Our living or workplace translates the experiences into anxiety [6]. It may originate from clamor, swarming, contamination, untidiness, or different diversions which we are constrained to make. The anxiety may also be instigated out the variety of occasions we confront with at work [7]. Unforeseen difficulties, perseveringly high and unrelieved anxiety can prompt mental, physical, and behavioral routine anxiety [8]. Stress related behavioral change incorporates danger captivating actions like risky driving, standoffish conduct, and instructive disappointment [9]. In this study analyst have attempted to figure out reasons and routes how to dispose of stress? This study will investigate how subjects of study deal with their stress. LITERATURE REVIEW What is Stress? “The term stress refers to negative emotional experiences with associated behavioral, biochemical and physiological changes that are related to perceived acute or chronic challenges [10].” “Stress is the wear and tear caused by life [11].” “Stress is dangerous when it is unduly prolonged, comes too often or concentrates on one particular organ of the body [12].” Sign and Symptoms of Stress Everybody responds to stretch in diverse ways [13]. Be that as it may, there are some basic manifestations to pay special mind to. Your side effects can be mental, enthusiastic, behavioral, physical, or a blend of these [14]. Mental indications of anxiety can include:  Constant stressing  A powerlessness to focus  Feeling that you have misguided thinking  Seeing just the negative  On edge musings  Memory issues In case you're influenced candidly by anxiety, your manifestations may include:  Emotional episodes or changes in your inclination  Fractiousness or having an irritability  A powerlessness to unwind  Feeling overpowered  A feeling of depression  Dejection  Low self-regard