MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS ON STRESS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON INDIVIDUALS HEAVY DRINKING, PERCEIVED HEALTH AND PERCEIVED LIFE SATISFACTION
Abstract
Stress is prevalent in life which might determine both mental and physical health of individual in particular and society
in general. There are abundant of theories that attempt to find various causes or triggers of stress while bringing emphasis
on both stressors and respective coping strategies. There are also theories which explain stress in terms of body-mind
complex, cognition, sociology and etc. One of the major factors which is affected by stress is perhaps health. Stress, when
mismanaged leads to plethora of health problems. This descriptive study is an attempt to understand stress with respect
to certain other factors like heavy drinking, perceived health and life satisfaction. The data used is secondary in nature,
which was collected from Statistics Canada. Correlation and MANOVA were used in order to realize the objectives of the
study. All the variables are strictly correlated with Karl Pearson correlation coefficient ranging from 0.73 to 0.99. In
significant test all variables do not belie with alternative hypothesis, which means the association/relationship is not zero.
In MANOVA, the null hypotheses were accepted as all p-values are more than significance level (0.01). Apart from this,
most interestingly the variables are behaving like cohorts whereby resulting cohort effect.
