Academic Stress

Academic Stress Upon University Students The compiled stressors upon university students, especially those who just came across this transitional phase, will cause them a severe academic stress. The relentless requirements of university life place a lot of pressure on students which in return stimulate a feeling of stress and worn out. Also, they face immediate challenges; according to Lumley & Provenzano (2003) “The immediate challenges that students face are the decisions they have to make about the presented career paths in addition to developing and negotiating new relationships, getting novel ideas that challenge their past-learnt views, and moving away from home.” To emphasize the importance of handling academic stress many

Accordingly, the concept of burnout has been given another name to relate it to the educational field- learning or academic burnout. “Learning burnout is based on the idea that students become burned out in their learning process because of academic pressure, homework overload, or other individual psychological factors such as emotional exhaustion, negative attitudes, and the phenomenon of low personal accomplishment" (Lin & Huang, 2012, p. 232). According to (Stoliker & Lafreniere, 2012, p300-311) students suffering from academic burnout have the tendency to feel emotional exhaustion (mentally drained), low sense of achievement and depersonalization (a negative or detached response in social situations). The continuous feeling that student has to meet up with certain standards for their work to be accepted or adequate enough could cause the students to feel burnout. It drains their energy as they’re wondering if their work match up with the quality

This could be done through academic coping- it refers to the use of various strategies in order to manage ones level of academic stress (Hess & Copeland 2001). They also mentioned that the utilization of ‘academic coping’ strategies by students can play a part in mitigating the effects of academic stressors. Through their studies, they discovered that students that seek social support have a greater chance of being successful in their studies and have a better academic performance. In regards to the examination issue, the universities should organize schedules that don’t pressure students into finishing a large portion in a short time. This could minimize the stress and physical health issues since they don’t have to be seated in the same posture for a long time. Moreover, giving out time management courses could help them a