6.1.4. Stress

The *mean* value for stress *intensity* for the whole group was 16.93 ± 10.98, which classifies as a mild level of stress. The stress level among the surveyed students, which is defined as normal in the DASS-21 subscale, concerned 47.2% (*n* = 1026) of the respondents, mild stress—11.8% (*n* = 255), moderate stress—15.3% (*n* = 333), severe stress—16.8% (*n* = 364), and the extremely severe stress—8.9% (*n* = 194) of the respondents. As previously, females (20.93 ± 15.45) scored statistically (*p* < 0.001) higher than males (12.58 ± 14.70). With regards to the anxiety subscale, the order was almost the same as in the case of the abovementioned subgroups with science faculty (Me = 20.00 ± 11.12) in the highest place, then art and humanities (Me = 19.00 ± 11.62), and faculty of social sciences (Me = 16.00 ± 11.51), engineering (Me = 16.00 ± 10.82), and medicine (Me = 16.00 ± 10.73) with the lowest scores. The Kruskal–Wallis test showed no difference between the results of the stress subscale and the field of study (Supplementary Table S1.4).

The number of students with a particular degree of severity of depression, anxiety, and stress levels is presented in Table 5. Most of the students reached a normal level of depression (*n* = 948, 43.6%), anxiety (*n* = 1307, 60.2%), and stress (*n* = 1026, 47.2%). The highest level of depression symptoms was noted in 13.3% (*n* = 289) of the respondents. In the case of anxiety and stress, 11.7% (*n* = 253) and 8.9% (*n* = 194) of the students, respectively, were observed to have extremely severe symptoms (Table 5).

**Table 5.** The number of students presenting a severity ranges of overall emotional distress, depression, anxiety, and stress levels.

