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The Significance of Religion in Academic Stress Reduction among Woldia University Psychology Undergraduate Students

Melaku Agmasu

Background: The world is one of the big ocean, which is full of stress” in this big ocean stress rotates as a pendulum, when these pendulum stops? It is a big and the obvious question; actually it will stop while the stressful problem has got solutions. One study found that being able to anticipate stressful event and feeling that one had control over them initially heightened perceived stress, but also increase to adjust to the stressful events. This study attempted to investigate The Contribution of Religion in Academic Stress Reduction among Woldia University Psychology Under graduate students. Descriptive research design was used.
Methods & materials: A total of 50 students were taken by Simple random sampling techniques .After cleaning the data, analysis were conducted using percentage along with descriptive statistical techniques.
Results: The result of this study clearly indicates the majority of the respondents which consists 93.02% of the respondents clarify the importance of religion in reducing stress. Even if it is difficult to over generalize, but in this study based on the results the researcher concluded that religion is very important for reducing stress.