How Does Stress Affect Academic Performance

It is likely that almost every person will experience some type of stress in their lifetime due to it being a part of our everyday lives, especially academic stress. Taking this into consideration, being stressed during a critical period of one’s life, during college, it may be hard to manage everything that is going on including; getting assignments done, exams, work, etc. thus having an impact on ones’ academic performance. There are many different types of stress that an individual can experience such as stress from; work, finances, relationships, family, school, and many others. All of these types of stress can easily relate to college students and just as easily have an effect on their academic performance. Academic performance may also be based on how one handles stress or how they cope with it and if they seek out any help. There are many factors that influence ones’ stress levels and how they affect academic performance.

This is suggesting that the more stressed a student is, it will negatively impact their academic performance and the less stressed a student is, the better they perform academically. The second hypothesis is stating that students stress levels do not have a significant impact on academic performance. This suggests that the amount of stress a student is experiencing, whether high or low levels, it will have no effect on the students’ academic performance, they will continue to have a consistent academic performance that is not effected. The third hypothesis for this study is that high amounts of stress no matter the type of stress decreases a students’ grade point average and academic performance. When students are very stressed, due to large workload, work, studying, exams, etc. it will cause them stress and they will see a drop in their grade point average as well as a decline in their academic