Everyone in the world has a chance to experience stress, so almost everyone knows what the meaning of stress is. Most people who suffer from stress are college students because they have many things to do at the same time. Students have to balance their course work and family at the same time, and they have to leave their family problems in their home to be able to concentrate carefully on their course work. The university life has become a lot more challenging, and it’s much harder than school. I think being in college can be extremely stressful because students have to do everything by themselves. Furthermore, students have many assignments to do everyday. Therefore, students stay awake late and don’t pay attention to the class because they don’t get enough sleep. Moreover, college students in their first year usually lose or gain weight; this leads to stress. Also, most students have jobs and less time to do homework which makes them stress. An enormous amount of stress affects many academic issues; such as sleep deprivation, changes in weight, and time issues.…
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Stress can produce a huge effect on many students, including mental reactions, misconduct and depression. The competition in colleges rises, as well as the expectations from the students. When they study thoroughly to attain their goals, they realize that there are many challenges and obstacles they are coming up with and consequently stress starts to develop.…
In our society, various factors can attribute to the cause of stress which can affect or destabilize the functioning of an individual. However, many from various sects of life go through stress once, twice or more in their lifetime. Colleges provide for new students the idea of unlimited freedom which inspires the student and make such individuals zealous and very motivated, but little is said about the demand and responsibility that is expected from the student. Herein lays the stress.…
This post is part of the Stress-Less Parenting Club's first workshop. Starting February 20, Pamela will be sharing her best advice on everything from improving your kids' eating habits to teaching them patience. Here, she tells us how French parents taught her to stop stressing out!…
Stress is the combination of psychological, physiological, and behavioral reactions that people have in response to events that threaten or challenge them. Stress can be good or bad. Sometimes, stress is helpful, providing people with the extra energy or alertness they need. Stress could give a runner the edge he or she needs to persevere in a marathon, for example. This good kind of stress is called eustress. Unfortunately, stress is often not helpful and can even be harmful when not managed effectively. Stress could make a salesperson buckle under the pressure while trying to make a sales pitch at an important business meeting, for example. Moreover, stress can increase the risk of developing health problems, such as cardiovascular disease and anxiety disorders. This bad kind of stress is called distress, the kind of stress that people usually are referring to when they use the word stress.…
First, stress can be a problem that affects everyone; especially students have issues in school, meaning they have to get high grades to be an exemplary student who achieves parents’ dreams to pursuit their happiness. In addition, a student struggling with…
The word “stress‟ is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “a state of affair involving demand of physical or mental energy”.A condition or circumstances which can distribute the normal physical and mental health of an individual. Stress is the tension and pressure that result when an individual views situations which present a demand that threatens to exceed his or her capabilities or resources. In stress uncertainty over the outcomes and outcomes must be important are the two important issue which must be satisfied. If an average student wants to qualify exam with distinction, it means there is an uncertainty about outcome but it will be important for that particular student. Lastly, potential stress of that student becomes actual stress. Stress management is important for all human being without stress an individual cannot survive. Post graduate management students need to perform well in their studies as well as personal…
Stress exists in different forms in a college life of a student. First of all, some students experience stress as an extra burst of adrenaline. This form of stress helps to get a lot of done and meet any challenges. For example, sometimes students get a lot of assignments and usually they have to prepare them for the next day. This situation seems to be very stressful. However, this kind of stress, which refers to be positive stress, leads students to finish their homework. Positive stress is usually a short-term pressure. Unlike positive stress, there is another form of stress, what some people might call negative stress. Negative stress induces that people cannot return to a relaxed state. For instance, students have a lot of assignments, tests and presentations, but they postpone their work to another point of time until they stand under time pressure and feel very stressful. This form of stress, which is negative, usually refers to psychological effects and physical symptoms. However, a treatment and prevention of negative stress are possible in a college life.…
This chapter reviews previous writings of recognised authorities and past research findings relating to research findings, the research problems of the study where reviewed by the researcher. Scholars, academia and works of other researchers were also reviewed in order to gain knowledge useful for the study and to avoid duplication of already done work on the study. The researcher reviewed a literature on the Effect of Stress on Student’s Academic Performance on Kogi State University Undergraduates”. The researcher also presents a theoretical approach relevant to the study and its implication.…
Stress is a feeling that everything seems to have become too much overloading and when under the stress it is wondered whether the pressure placed upon him or her could be coped with. One of the most common types of it is school stress. It can be experienced at any grade and may result from innumerable factors. These factors are teacher or friend-based ones, grade-based ones, over-scheduling and lack of self-confidence. Students can be affected by the environment and also the stress may occur instinctively. Both the surroundings and the individual’s own thoughts, characteristics can trigger the stress process. As a result, these causes reflect in various ways. Overstress results in failing in the school works, alienation from the society, going away from the school, lack of tranquility both in school and home and even some mental problems. However, none of them is unsolvable. There are solutions for those students who have difficulty in coping with the school stress and getting rid of all negative feelings.…
Stress is one of the biggest problems facing contemporary students. More than half of students (53%) said they had become more stressed since starting university, according to the Student Living Report 2003, an ongoing survey of student experiences carried out by MORI for the UNITE Group plc. Medically, a little pressure can boost up students' enthusiasm of study. However, over stress, over work and taking too much stress of life might lead students to an extreme depressive state where a person in would even commit suicide. Stress is obviously a common and the biggest obstacle on students' road to success.…
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Second factor is family problems like financial problem and broken family. Financial problem somehow affects students their thinking of what will happen to them if their parents don’t have enough money to support their studies so instead of having stress in their studies, they are stress of thinking how will they continue their studies. The other one is having a broken family. Students tend to overthink example when their parents are separated and they don’t know who to choose among them.…
Stress is a necessary thing in human beings lives because stress adds flavor, challenge and opportunity to our world. It is also a part of every student’s daily life. In the right dose, stress can be healthy, or even enjoyable. Even though it can provide benefits, it can be very damaging for students when stress becomes excessive. It can harm student’s health, happiness, work performance, relationships and personal development. To avoid the undesirable disadvantages of stress, students should consider the causes of stress important as it help students make plan to reduce it.…