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The Importance Of Stress In Secondary Schools

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Many people in secondary school experience lots of stress in their life, especially the secondary six students who need to face one of an essential turning point in their life. To be specific, the Diploma of Secondary Education Examination(DSE) which may cause a great deal of stress for the students. It is pressing that people who live in a highly stressful environment need to develop some coping strategies in order to manage the stress in our lives.

Stress is an ordinary problem being confronted with today. Everyone will experience stress in many different times. Also, “stress” is an exceedingly subjective phenomenon that is difficult for people to define it accurately. Even in the same situation, not everyone copes with some level of stress and different elements can influence us to have a higher or lower stress levels. Some people find a situation is stressful to them since they have no experience to dealt and they think there are certain ambiguous factors of the situation. In fact, different people have the different definition of stress, they also respond to stress differently.

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The study of stress is mostly interdependent with the field of emotions. Emotion is experienced physically as well as mentally which means emotion includes thoughts and the physical feeling of discomfort or gladness. The model of emotional intelligence(EI), self-leadership, and student stress coping suggests that effective emotion regulation within the situation of EI coupled with the potent use of behavioral and cognitive strategies within the situation of the self-leadership result in the more positive emotions and higher levels of self-efficacy, finally resulting in more effective student stress

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