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Stress and Eating Behavior among Final Year Student in University
Malaysia Terengganu (UMT)
Venothiney Dewi A/P Muniandy
Supervisor: Dr. Zuhda binti Husain
Bachelor of Counselling
School of Social and Economic Development
This quantitative study aims to examine the stress and eating behavior among final
year students in University Malaysia Terengganu (UMT). The purpose of this study is
to know the relationship between stress and eating behavior among final year students
and to know the differences between stress and eating behavior based on gender.
The importance of this study is to gain knowledge among final year students about
stress and eating behavior. Respondents of this study are 335 final year students from
eight school in UMT. All subjects were selected based on random sampling for data
generalization. The data were collected using survey method. This instrument was
divided into three sections. The first section about the demographic of sample. The
second part contain questions based on Perceived Stress Scale which used to
determine students’ stress and third part questions about students’ eating behavior
based on Compulsive Eating Scale. Pilot test conducts to examine the reliability and
validation of survey. The correlation method is used to analyze the relationship
between stress and eating behavior of the respondents. T-test method is used to
analyze the differences between stress and eating behavior of respondents based on
gender differences.
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