Abstract

Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behavior, to overcome which individuals make use of different coping resources. Coping resources are those resources inherent in individuals that enable them to handle stresses more effectively. Since, anxiety among university students, both-hostellers and day scholars is a common concern thus, it is essential to study different coping resources used by them while experiencing anxiety. So the present study was aimed at finding out any significance difference between the anxiety levels and resources of hostellers and day scholars. The sample collected was a total of 40 students under the age group of 18 years -23 years, out of which 20 were hostellers and 20 were day scholars using convenient sampling. Present study uses the total scores on Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) and five sub-scales of The Coping Resources Inventory (CRI). Data was analyzed using t-test .The results obtained did not show much difference in the level of anxiety experienced by both hostellers and day scholars and were indicative of effective use of coping resources by both of them to deal with anxiety.