Advantages And Disadvantages Of Academic Stress

Stress is defined as anxious and threatening feeling that come when we interpret or appraise a situation as being more than what out psychological and mental can adequately handle. (Plotnik, 2005). Stress should replace with pressure and tension in which pressure was mean external forces that lead to illness progression and tension was causes a unavoidable changes occur internally (Cohen S, Janicki-Deverts D, & Miller GE, 2007). As a student, we tend to experience academic stresses throughout academic year. Whereas working people often deal with high level of stresses in the work place, hence affect their quality of life. Moreover, it also creates health issues among working adults such as neck pain, poor quality of sleep, severe depression. The perceived work related stress and lower prevalence regular exercise which might predispose worker to diseases have been stated by Tsai (2012).

Stress can bring advantages and disadvantages depend on how individuals perceived it in. It can definitely cause an extremely stressful and emotionally

Research conducted by (Alshagga et al. 2015) focused on ten sources of stress from students which is exams, fear towards future, final year project, financial problem and peer competition were significantly provide an insight about the stress level of students in Malaysia private and public university. Apart from academic stress other factor such as living arrangement or personal issue. For living arrangement, example is ‘living away from home’, ’sharing residence’, ’relaxation environment in rented residence’ and others are listed. Financial problem, family issue and difficult finding friend classified as personal factor stressor. (Manolova et al. 2012). The study found that student tends to experience high level of stress at predictable time during their academic commitment, financial pressure and lack of time management. (Awadh et al.