STRESS AND FRUSTRATION AMONG SMALL SCALE BUSINESS OWNERS IN NIGERIA: CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS (A CASE STUDY OF APHA FURNITURE COMPANY‚ IKPOBA SLOPE BENIN CITY) CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Before the arrived of the British Colonialists in Nigeria‚ there were numerous small scale industries and handicraft enterprises based on the available raw materials to meet local and regional demand. The Hausa‚ Yoruba and Bini people developed significant small-scale manufacture of
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Background of the Study We generally use the word "stress" when we feel that everything seems to have become too much - we are overloaded and wonder whether we really can cope with the pressures placed upon us. Anything that poses a challenge or a threat to our well-being is a stress. Some stresses get you going and they are good for you - without any stress at all many say our lives would be boring and would probably feel pointless. However‚ when the stresses undermine both our mental and physical
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CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF STRESS IN EDUCATION “59-year-old mother from Malacca urged youngsters not to be like her son‚ who chose to commit suicide when under pressure” (Isabellel‚ Ng & Raman‚ 2013‚ para. 1). Recently‚ there have been some news report about college students committed suicide all over the world. These issues had aroused much public attention. The factors of these incidents is stress faced by students in education. Most of the students will go through three stages of education which
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As a first time college student I have come to realize that its takes hard work and dedication to be successful academically. In order to be successful there are many factors that will lead to a victorious academic career. These skills will help me become successful with my academic goals and a clear outline to the path of my education. It is extremely important to have a plan before the process beings. To achieve these goals there must be a system in place for time management and studying. While
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Internet Addiction among Greek University Students: Demographic Associations with the Phenomenon‚ using the Greek version of Young’s Internet Addiction Test Christos C. Frangos1‚ Constantinos C. Frangos2 and Apostolos P. Kiohos3 Abstract Internet addiction (IA) is a new disorder described in 1996 by the psychologist Kimberly Young. The aim of this paper is to estimate the percentage of IA among Greek university students. Results of a sample survey among 1876 Greek university students‚ 18-27 years old
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occupational hazards have also been increasing. Women in IT industries have develop work stress and strain. Researches define stress as a physical‚ mental or emotional response to events that causes bodily or mental tension. Simply put‚ stress is any outside force or event that has an effect on our body or mind. Stress‚ depression and hypertension have now become extremely common among all outsourcing IT industries (software‚ BPO and
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Stress Stress is a term used to describe the physical‚ emotional‚ cognitive‚ and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging. But for me stress is a mental and emotional distraction condition‚ which is caused due to pressure in everyday life. Stress can have a positive or a negative effect on a person depending on how it is dealt with. For me‚ college is my number one stressor. The causes are academic‚ financial and personal. When it comes to trying to relieve
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issues which college students get a tendency to go into business. Almost people are arguing in association with whether or not college students should run some kind of business while they are going to college. In my perspective‚ I strongly believe that college students shouldn’t go into business when studying in college. Because business brings about more disadvantages than benefits to college students. Firstly‚ college students do not get sufficient time to run business. Applying to a college‚ college
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Over the past several years the demand on colleges and universities to open their doors to online learning has increased dramatically. With hundreds of students turning to online courses and according to Allen & Seaman 2010 “over 4.6 million students were taking at least one online course during the Fall 2008 term‚ a 17 percent increase over the number reported the previous year.” There have been several studies and articles written about the different effects‚ good and bad‚ that the online
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first-generation and continuing-generation students that was established between a four-year university. In this research‚ a questionnaire was given to first-generation students in the marketing department at Sam Houston State University. This experiment also focused on how well these students perform in school depending on their motivation. The research stated‚ “Research has shown that parental assistance and encouragement is one of the most important indicators of students’ educational desires” (Forbus et
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