DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i05.002

Pages: 989-993

This study investigate the stress coping strategies for technical education students on Industrial Training in Enugu State University of Science and Technology. A survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study comprised 84 (400 level students) and of which purposive random sampling was used to select the students. Two research questions guided the study and a structured questionnaire of 20 items was used as instrument for data collection. The instrument was face validated by three experts, two from the Department of Technology and Vocational Education, Enugu State University of Science and Technology while one is from the department of vocational Education of Nnamdi Azikwe University Awka. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was calculated using Cronbach Alpha reliability test and it yielded 0.75. Mean with standard deviation was used to answer the research question. The study found out that the coping strategies adopted by the students during Industrial Training include setting attainable goals, maintaining a sense of humour, having good human relations with other staff, withdraw physically from stressful situation. It was recommended that the students on industrial training should be given adequate time to negotiate their various aspects of interaction with specific task so as to reduce stress from the students.