ACADEMIC STRESS: EFFECT OF STRESS ON ACADEMICS PART 2

 ACADEMIC STRESS: EFFECT OF STRESS ON ACADEMICS PART 2

MAJOR SOURCES OF STRESS IN STUDENTS.

Indeed, students have a unique cluster of stressful experiences. Student’s academic performances can be affected by many factors.

Similarly, the sources of stress more specifically as a unique set of stressful encounters among student which includes: difficult financial challenges, domestic responsibilities, responsibilities related to holding a job while in school, and a heavy academic load.

The sources are explained below:

A. RELATIONSHIPS AS A SOURCE OF STRESS

 The term relationship talks about how people are connected and the connection can be through blood, marriage, adoption and other legal ways like neutralisation for a country and registration. This bond that is created between people can at times turn to be a burden on them and others to turn out to be victims of relationship abuse. Relationship abuse is an example of oppressive and coercive practices used to keep up force and control over a previous or current cosy accomplice. Abuse can be enthusiastic, money related, sexual or physical and can incorporate dangers, seclusion, and terrorising. 

Abuse has a tendency to raise after some time. All these relationship issues can be in the form of change in a relationship, conflicts with a roommate, working with people you don't know, contact with strangers and family problems. The student turns to stress up to about these issues and begins to think a lot about ways to solve them which leads to them being distracted or having divided attention from academic work.

B. PERSONAL FACTORS AS A SOURCE OF STRESS

Personal factors happen to really cause so much stress than we can imagine and they also play a very important role in the various aspect of the life of a student.  Personal factors can take a form of so many ways which one way or the other affect student performance and stress them up. Some of these factors are:

✓ Change in Living Environment

The reality that stress occurs when an event or stimulus requires us to change in some way makes a change in living environment a stressful experience. Apart from moving from home to school, our daily bumping into new faces on campus, disorders from roommates, etc. is tensed experience.

✓ New responsibilities

Responsibilities related to holding a job while in school will certainly compound to a heavy academic load which is bound to result in stress. This is really challenging, as one has to financially rely on a job for sustenance. 

✓ Financial Difficulties

It is definitely not a conducive experience when a student has to handle dual challenges of academics and financial constraints. Life becomes very challenging when a student is behind on bills payment; for when deadlines are not met and bills stares at you, it is enough to get a student tensed and depressed. 

C.  ACADEMIC FACTORS  AS A SOURCE OF STRESS

There are some factors that happen in the academic curriculum that causes so much stress to students. So many things take place in the day to day activities of the academic processes that make students stress up.

✓ Increased class workload

An increase in class workload stresses up students in the sense that when students have to do more than they can handle, they turn to get frustrated and are unable to focus and think straight. Students will overschedule their plans to meet up with the class workload in other to get good grades but eventually because these tasks are too much for them, they end up messing everything up. Especially in situations where there are a lot of assignments to do after having a very long day at work makes students more confused. Also Too much workload can also make student to be stressed in the sense that, when a student is undergoing so many courses in school and each of these courses are also demanding it make the student not have enough time to handle all these courses to his or her perfection and ones that happen the student turns to think so much and as a result will be stressed up and this will have a great effect on the academic performance of the student.

✓ Lower grade 

It is the desire of every student to excel in their field studies as such high grades mean a lot to students. In situations where students believe they expect a higher grade but at the end get a lower grade than they expected it weighs them down and kills the motivation they have. Once this happens students start to think a lot about what they didn't do, where they went and most times are not able to find answers to those questions. At the long run, they become stressed up with that and are not able to do everything right again.

✓ Many hours of studies

Every student has a life outside the academic curriculum and environment. When a student has to compromise and use their personal time for other activities for studies, they turn to get bored and lose interest in studies. At the long run, this situation stresses them up which causes them to lose focus on academic work. As the saying goes "all work and no play make Jack a dull boy ", it also applies to students since they will become dull if all they do is to use their private time for studies and nothave time for themselves.

✓ Procrastination

Procrastination, as they say, is the thieve of time, one attitude that is very common among a lot of students is procrastination. Procrastination is the avoidance of doing a task which needs to be accomplished. It is the act of accomplishing more pleasurable things set up of less pleasurable ones or completing less critical errands rather than more pressing ones, in this manner putting off approaching assignments to a later time. When student keeps doing this they lose interest in doing that particular task or assignment and once the loss of interest sets in stress follows up since they will be thinking how to meet up with the deadline for the assignment or task.

D. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS

The environments students leave in plays a major role in how their life will be in school. Some students turn to adapt to new environment whiles others also feel discomfort being in a new environment. The environment student finds themselves in can stress them up which may cause them not focus on their studies or other academic issues and work.

✓ Bad living conditions

Living conditions of people place a major role in the feeling and thinking of students. When students live in a condition which is difficult to afford some basic amenities of life they really live unhappily and this affects almost all the aspect of their life. Therefore, when they start to ponder about this issues they get stressed up and lose focus.

✓ Divorce between parents

Major life changing events or happens can be very stressful to everyone, especially students. Unpleasant events like the divorce of parents make the student not be themselves because they become victims of broken homes. Divorce takes away the happiness students have and once that happiness they lose themselves and reflect on the past which stresses them up at the long run. There are a lot of situations that when someone finds themselves in they become frustrated and try to find ways and means out of that situations. Students are also victims of some of these situations. Some kind stuff or issues take places in school which might involve a student and he or she knows nothing about that situation and most often they are unpleasant ones. Students become disturbed and worried when they find themselves in such situations and thinking about that stress them up a lot.

✓ Fear

Fear is one of the biggest problem student face each day in and out in their academic life. Fear in a student can be about failure or talking in public. When a student has the fear of failure they are always scared to undertake any initiative even when they know it's the right thing to do due to this they always stress up when they are confronted with such situations. It's the same with fear of talking in public. They always try to escape public so as not to talk.

✓ Future worries

The thought of how the future will turn out is a burden for most students, especially if the field of their studies is one that has difficulties in finding a job. Students get stress up when they think of what they will do in the future and most of these thoughts is about whether they will be a burden to the society or they will be an impact of it.

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