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      A longitudinal study of perceived stress and cortisol responses in an undergraduate student population from India

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          Young adults entering college experience immense shifts in personal and professional environments. Such a potentially stressful event may trigger multiple psychological and physiological effects. In a repeated-measures longitudinal survey (N = 6 time-points) of first year cohort of residential undergraduate students in India, this study evaluates multiple psychological parameters: PSS14 (Perceived Stress Scale), K10 (distress scale) and positive mood measures, along with salivary cortisol levels. We find that compared to women, men showed significantly lower levels of salivary cortisol and also a decrease in perceived stress (PSS14) and distress (K10) with time. By contrast, women reported similar perceived stress and distress levels over time but had higher cortisol levels at the end of the academic year. Academic stress was reported by the students to be the most important stressor. This study highlights notable gender-/sex-differences in psychological and physiological stress responses and adds a valuable longitudinal dataset from the Indian undergraduate student cohort which is lacking in literature.

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                Contributors
                Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: Writing – original draft
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: Formal analysisRole: Writing – review & editing
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                Journal
                PLoS One
                PLoS One
                plos
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                4 June 2021
                2021
                : 16
                : 6
                : e0252579
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India
                [2 ] Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
                Zurich University of applied sciences, SWITZERLAND
                Author notes

                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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                Current address: University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

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                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3990-3560
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6019-2639
                Article
                PONE-D-20-29949
                10.1371/journal.pone.0252579
                8177861
                34086754
                43ce00c9-cf7d-496b-bd96-5b97b7bdcd6e
                © 2021 Batabyal et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 9 October 2020
                : 18 May 2021
                Page count
                Figures: 2, Tables: 1, Pages: 11
                Funding
                Funded by: Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India
                Award ID: Internal Research Grant
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                Funded by: Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India
                Award ID: Internal Research Grant
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                Funded by: DBT-IISc partnership program
                Award Recipient :
                Azim Premji University provided funding to AB and SM to conduct the study and allowed them to use their facilities. Funding for this research was supported in part by the DBT-IISc partnership program to MT. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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