Academic Stress

Stress means of a perceived threat (actual or expected) to one’s psychological, physical and sacred well
being, consequential from a chain of physiological responses and adaptations (Seaward, 2006).

Stress has become suggestive of tip of in education section as well as in social side. Academic stress has
large influence on the life of students. It has been one of the major factors that is contributing students
propensity towards the hopelessness, despair, worry, harsh, self-harming actions and turn then towards
suicidal behaviors (Aug, & Huan, 2006).

There are three different type of stress. First is eustress which is a good stress and comes under any
condition that a person feels rousing. Falling in love can be example of eustress, Second is not neustress
which describes sensory stimulus that has nor resulting effect, it is not good stress and not as bad. The
News of an earthquake in a remote corner of the world might be an example of this stress third is
anguish which is actually bad and know to be purely as stress (Seaward, 2006).

Academic stress means education related stresses it can be in every situation otherwise feel stress.
Academic stress is the main sources of stress faced by young people. Some students often feel high
academic burden fewer contentment related their scholastic achievement. And had high outer saddle to
study, and may suffer more educational stress (Dunne, Sun, & Nugan, 2010).

Preiffer (2001) find that students have a fear of failure in related to their academic work and prenatal
expectations. Positive stress facilitates the students by motivating them to present well in test, exam
and assignment.

Academic stress is one of the main stresses a type of distress. Academic means taking different exams
writing different text and completing assignment. In short, academic measure what a person has
learned (Seaward, 2006). Academic stress can be described as a student’s connections with
environmental stressors, the student’s cognitive thoughtfulness of and coping with the academic-
related stressors, and emotionally or physiological reaction to the stressors (Lee & Larson, 2000; Lou, &
Chi, 2000). All the discussion showed that educational stress is a persistent problem among students
(Wong, Wong, & Scott, 2002).

Stress indicate significant point of discussion in education department as well as in social circle a wide
research on stress has been conducted deducing its result with the conclusion

Academic stressors basically refer to any type academic demands like environmental, social, Internal
demands that cause a student to influence adjustment his or her behavior (Thoits, 1995).

Although academic stressors usual actions in a student life that affects student academic and intellectual
health. Usually, examination, too much groundwork, time issues, and peer contest that are customary as
worldwide studious stressors and its can be global to all cultures (Cheng, Leong, & Geist, 1993).

Parents play a role the contributing students’ educational stress. When stress is perceived negatively or
become excessive, it can influence the academic performance. Academic stress is the mixture of
academic related load that go beyond the adaptive resources accessible to a person previous research
from different countries find that academically stress is associated to the force to go and fear of failure,
and is related with a large series of cognitive and educational factors (Meijer, 2007: Putwain, 2009).

Students make practice to excellent grades because their parents expect it. And they may offer
themselves to such pressure because they wish to get into education school .During the time period of
study the tension of examinations result in substantial stress for many students (Carson, Butcher, &
Mineka, 2001).

The severe stress a person may sense when attractive a high stakes college admissions test to the
anxiety people with a persistent terror of math experiences when sitting in math class explain
prominent commonalities in the special effects they have on cognitive functioning . Particularly these
stressful academic situations decrease the functioning memory obtainable to attend to task information
giving out requirements and to control its implementation (Tharp, & Pickering, 2009; DeCaro; Thomas,
2008).

Even excessive moment in time frequently leads to anxiety a number of students practice completely
unusual form of academic stress. Increasing anxiety in excess of exams, presentations or additional
course milestones be able to excursion even the best time mangers. Towards fight these demons just
preparation to the lead and next a plan might not be sufficient. The studying successfully and
meaningful the materials surely helps no difficulty some test repeated stress. Working in façade of
friends is able to create talking in community a little fewer

Stress has become an important subject in academic contain as well as in our culture. Many researchers
in the field of behavioral science have carried out extensive research on stress and its consequences and
concluded that the subject needed more concentrations [1, 2, 3, 4]. Stress in academic institutions can
have both positive and negative consequences if not well managed [5, 6, 7, 8, 9.However, It is important
to the society that students should learn and obtain the essential knowledge and skills in order to make
them contribute positively to the development of the nation form different aspects.
Nonetheless, University students suffer from different kind of academic stressors during their education
experiences. The idea of this research came by observing the researcher and its interaction with the
students during the teaching learning process; also by the record unit in the college counseling; and the
number of students who are looking for help; to draw the attention of officials to the university and help
them control of the stress factors for students, Which also helps in developing the preferable methods
to enable students to cope with this stressor during the period of their studies. University students are
at a high risk for increased stress. Demanding academic pressure and limited social and personal time
can add to the
normal stress of life and begin to have a negative effect on a person Moreover, universities did not take
clear steps to learn and face serious psychological stress for students during the period they spend of
their studies.
Stress is a common element in the lives of every individual, regardless of race or cultural background
[10]. Over the past few decades, there has been significant investigation on the issues of stress and
management of stress [11]. In addition, college students have been shown to possess a unique set of
stressors which can affect their daily experiences [10]. Researcher Campbell [12] defines stress as the
adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demands placed on them. Stress
occurs when an individual is confronted by a situation that they perceive as overwhelming and cannot
cope up with. Academic stress among students have long been researched on, and researchers have
identified stressors as too many assignments, competition with other students, failures, lack of pocket
money [13], poor relationships with other students or lecturers, family or problems at home.
Institutional (university) level stressors are overcrowded lecture halls [14,15] semester system, and
inadequate resources to perform academic work.
Moreover, college students have a unique cluster of stressful experiences or stressors [10]. According to
Ross, Neibling and Heckert [16] there are several explanations for increased stress levels in college
students. First, students have to make significant adjustments to college life. Second, because of the
pressure of studies, there is strain placed on interpersonal relationships. Third, housing arrangements
and changes in lifestyle contribute to stress experienced by college students. In addition, students in
college experience stress related to academic requirements, support systems, and ineffective coping
skills. Whereas these factors have been found to be responsible for stress, it is worth noting that in
order to minimize the stress among students; the University administrators must develop appropriate
strategies that will enable them to detect in advance the symptoms and causes of the stress.
Moreover, institutions worldwide have not taken serious steps to find out the health of students, this
could be attribute