The Experience of Stress in Female College Students

This purpose of this study was to identify the meaning and structure of the experiences of women who weremost stressed when they live and how they respond to stress when they were stressed.Six Female collegestudents aged 29 years were interviewed for a total of three times until data was saturated and collected untilno more data were collected. Interview data was processed through the analysis and interpretation processusing the Giorgi phenomenological research method. As a result, 45 semantic units was derived, these weredivided again into 12 subcomponents, and then divided into 3 categories. The stress situation of female collegestudents was a way to escape from the stress that arises in situations that were difficult to overcome due totheir inability to cope with, and that they were trying to take a walk or listen to music. A young women agedgroup, female college students becomes the center of the future family. Therefore, their emotional health willbe more important than any other class. In conclusion, this study suggests the provision of a young women’stailed program that could help the female college students to experience the stress in the life task positivelyand to help the stress crisis as a positive experience of life. KCI Citation Count: 2