EWC 661: The Problem of Anxiety and Stress Among Students in UiTM

THE PROBLEM OF ANXIETY AND STRESS

AMONG STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA (UITM)

Prepared for

Miss Azean Sulaiman

EWC 661 Lecturer

Academy of Language Studies

Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)

Shah Alam

Prepared by

Nur Azreen Izzaty Binti Mohd Nizam 2016717093

Farrah Shahira Binti Abdullah 2017405208

Nur Alia Farhana Binti Sawal 2017405308

Muhamad Aiman Afnan Bin Mohd Zabidee 2017405274

CS242 5D

Degree in Actuarial Science

Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam

13th December 2018

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TERMS OF REFERENCE

On 10th September 2018, the English for Report Writing lecturer (EWC661),
Miss Azean Sulaiman instructed Nur Azreen Izzaty Binti Mohd Nizam, Farrah Shahira
Binti Abdullah, Nur Alia Farhana Binti Sawal and Muhamad Aiman Afnan Bin Mohd
Zabidee to conduct a study and write a report on the “The Problem of Anxiety and
Stress Among Students in Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM)”. This report was
submitted on 13th December 2018.

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ABSTRACT

University students nowadays have to prepare themselves for professional careers and
keep up with the growing social demands that they face in university studies which exposes
them to anxiety and stress. There have been some concerns whether these students are able to
control their anxiety and stress in their university life. This small-scale study has been
conducted to measure the level of anxiety and stress among university students. Besides, it
studies the effects of anxiety and stress among university students, and identifies the ways to
reduce it. Questionnaires distributed to 30 respondents consisting of students chosen at random
in Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Science (FSKM), Universiti Teknologi MARA
(UiTM) Shah Alam were collected and analysed. Results show that majority of the respondents
who are having high level of anxiety and stress are the students in relationship, have single
parent or an orphan, whose total family income is below than RM3000 and above RM6000,
least satisfied in academic performance and social life, and staying in campus. Apart from that,
there are some effects on student, such as harming themselves, skipping class, throwing things
away and exposing other bad personality. To overcome this issue, most of students eat a lot of
food, watch television or new movies and also live by religious beliefs or philosophy of life to
reduce anxiety and stress. In conclusion, the students should not do bad things to overcome
anxiety and stress. Thus, it is important for the students to have knowledge on how to handle
anxiety and stress.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We would like to express our deepest appreciation to all those who contributed to the
completion of this report. A special gratitude goes to our lecturer, Miss Azean Sulaiman who
contributed in stimulating suggestions and encouragement, helping us to coordinate this task
well especially in writing this report.

This appreciation is to be dedicated to our group members for their hard work and
struggle in completing this project. Without them this project could not be completed on time.
We would also like to convey our deep appreciation to all respondents for their cooperation in
answering the questionnaire.

We would also like to thank our classmates for their support, help and guidance in
completing this project. Lastly, a special thanks to our family for their moral and financial
supports during preparation of this report. To those who involved formally and informally,
thank you so much.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TERMS OF REFERENCE ......................................................................................................... i

ABSTRACT ...............................................................................................................................ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ....................................................................................................... iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS .......................................................................................................... iv
LIST OF TABLES ..................................................................................................................... v
LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................................... v
1.0 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................... 1
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY ........................................................................ 1
1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT ...................................................................................... 2
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY ............................................................................. 2
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY......................................................................... 3
1.5 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY........................................................................... 4
2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW .................................................................................................... 4
2.1 What is the level of anxiety and stress among university students? ........................ 4
2.2 What are the effects of anxiety and stress among university students? ................... 5
2.3 How to reduce anxiety and stress among university students? ................................ 6
3.0 METHODOLOGY .............................................................................................................. 7
3.1 RESPONDENTS OF THE STUDY ........................................................................ 7
3.2 INSTRUMENTS OF THE STUDY ........................................................................ 7
3.3 DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURE.................................................................... 8
3.4 DATA ANALYSIS METHOD................................................................................ 8
4.0 FINDINGS ........................................................................................................................... 9
4.1 BACKGROUND OF THE RESPONDENTS ......................................................... 9
4.2 REPORT OF THE FINDINGS .............................................................................. 10
4.3 DISCUSSION OF THE FINDINGS ..................................................................... 19
5.0 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS .............................................................. 23
5.1 CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................... 23
5.2 RECOMMENDATIONS ....................................................................................... 25
REFERENCES ........................................................................................................................ 27
APPENDIX: SAMPLE OF QUESTIONNAIRE..................................................................... 28

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LIST OF TABLES

Table 1: Respondents divided by demographic information ..................................................... 9

Table 2: 20 students in a relationship and 10 students are single. ........................................... 10
Table 3: 20 female students and 10 male students. .................................................................. 10
Table 4: 28 students have married parents and 2 are orphan/ have single parent. ................... 11
Table 5: 3 students have total family income of less than RM1000, 10 students have total family
income of RM1000 to RM3000, 15 students have total family income of RM3000 to RM6000
and only 2 students have total family income more than RM6000. ........................................ 12
Table 6: 15 students are less satisfied in academic performance, 9 students are satisfied in
academic performance and 6 students are very satisfied in academic performance. ............... 13
Table 7: 2 students are less satisfied in social life, 7 students are satisfied in social life and 21
students are very satisfied in social life. .................................................................................. 13
Table 8: 30 students are in the third year. ................................................................................ 14
Table 9: 30 students are staying in campus. ............................................................................ 14
Table 10: The percentage of respondents for the solutions to control anxiety and stress. .... 18

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1: The Effect of Stress and Anxiety among Students Towards Individual .................. 15
Figure 2: The Effect of Stress and Anxiety among Students Towards Academic................... 16
Figure 3: The Effect of Stress and Anxiety among Students Towards Society ....................... 17

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1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

According to a study by Khadijah (2013), apart from having problems with

independent living, university students also have problems related to academic.
University students nowadays have to prepare themselves for professional careers and
keep up with the growing social demands that they face in university studies. This
exposes them to anxiety and stress, which are fairly common. Blanco et al., (2008) says
that one thing that is unavoidable and very present in life is stress. It’s becoming more
prevalent among university students (Gallagher, 2008; Mackenzie et al., 2011).

Nowadays, according to Thurber and Walton (2012), in order for students to be

successful, they must obtain a college degree. For students to obtain college degree, the
transition of leaving their home state to attend university can be said to be a cause to
stress and anxiety. Adewuya (2006) states that previous studies show students all over
the world have high rates of psychological morbidity especially anxiety. Crocker and
Luhtanen (2003), Kumaraswamy (2013), Misra and McKean (2000) agree that another
important source of stress among university students are test taking, pressures of
meeting grade requirements and time management. On the bright side, academics are
supposed to help improve learning capacity and competency. But on the other side, as
said by Kumaraswamy (2013) and Murphy and Archer (1996), students’ mental health
can be affected by this stress.

In order for universities to offer treatments to solve their students’ problems, it

is crucial for them to know and understand other aspects other than academics that can
be the cause for the increase in anxiety and stress among their students. Doom and
Haeffel (2013) says that the negative impact of stress and anxiety among students is
correlated with harmful behaviours such as smoking, drinking, sleep deprived and poor
diet.

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1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT

As the students, having to cope with some of many reasons like homesick,
difficult syllabus and inefficient higher education programs which have made higher
education is a stressful time in student's life (Mutalik, N., Moni, S., Choudhari, S.,
Bhogale, G., 2016). These several factors that happened to the students have given a
big impact to them and would affect their university life. The issue of anxiety and stress
among students has been a great concern to educators and mental health providers as
they have to necessarily take part in this issue to reduce anxiety and stress so that the
quality of mental health education can be improved (Vitaliano, P.P., Russo, J., Carr,
J.E. & Heerwagen J.H., 1984). Most of the educators have not realized that their
students are having some struggles due to anxiety and stress as the most of students are
just keeping their problem to themselves. Even if they know, they would pay only little
attention to it as they have to face some other students' problem as well. Even though
the university or specifically the faculty has made some initiatives to make the teaching
and learning process as pleasurable and stress-free as possible, but it is unable to help
the students' individual problem in details. In mental health, it is important to consider
anxiety and stress levels in the community especially university students. If they fail to
detect those level and address to these emotions, as a result, increased psychological
morbidity with undesirable impacts all through their professions and lives will
unfortunately happen (Al-Naggar, R.A. and Al-Naggar, D.H., 1987). The following
questions have prompted to conduct the study on anxiety and stress among students:
1. What is the level of anxiety and stress among university students?
2. What are the effects of anxiety and stress among university students?
3. How to reduce anxiety and stress among university students?

1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

A few objectives of the study are as listed below:

 To measure the level of anxiety and stress among university students.

 To study the effects of anxiety and stress among university students.
 To identify the ways to reduce anxiety and stress among university students.

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1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

1.4.1 Students

The findings of the anxiety and stress among students helps them to lessen this
mental illness while improving their study ability to reach higher education in their life.
Firstly, this study giving us a knowledge about the causes, factors and reasons of the
students involved in this mental illness. Apparently, the study shows money factor
become one of the big factors that affect students to anxiety and stress. So, the students
need to plan about their savings and else that benefitting their financial.

1.4.2 Parents

Parents is a person that very closed to students. They should know their children
behaviour and gives a lot of loves and care about them. They should know how to cool
down their children and make them feel secure. People anxiety when they don’t have
anything to rely on, but children have their parents to rely. Thus, parents have to be
considerate and tolerate with their children so that they feel the warmness of loves
between the family and does not feel anxiety and stress.

1.4.3 Society

There are a lot more reasons and ways to cope the mental illness that which will
be explore from this study. Therefore, we can help students to reduce anxiety and stress
throughout their level of illnesses and try to decrease the numbers of this cases. When
this kind of mental state can be overcome easily, the society can live without hatred and
grudge which lead to a happy environment. Clear thinking makes a person can focus
more about their motto and vision of their life and create more happiness than sadness.

1.4.4 Lecturers

Surprisingly this study has its significance towards lecturers where some
lecturers might not be aware of this vital thing. It gives benefit to a lecturer where the
lecturers can adapt their teaching style with the students. Sometimes, students become
stressed when they are given a lot of assignments and amends. They finished the
assignments and study because of their anxiety to fail, not to gain a knowledge from the
lecturers which is the reason for them to study in the Universities. Lecturers that giving

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an input and output can open up student eyes to put that knowledge in their minds. For
example, the mathematics formula can be used to create any policy or any calculation
which makes student thinks the formula is important for them to memorize.

1.5 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

There are few limitations in this research. Stress and anxiety are hard to be
measured. It hard to differentiate between stress and anxiety that happen to us. The
sample size of this study consists of 1 faculty which is Faculty Computer Sciences and
Mathematics (FSKM) and 1 university which is UiTM Shah Alam. The sample size is
small as it used 30 respondents. Also, the sample profile does not vary as the study is
using students instead other profile such as lecturer, society and etc. Furthermore, the
method is might not accurate as students might misunderstand by the questions or they
even know how to contrast between stress and anxiety. Last but not least, the time for
this research is limited as the time given is short which is 14 days and the timing for
respondents to answer the questionnaire might not suitable as the research carried out
during the entry of students into university.

2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW

This chapter discusses the research done by other past researchers that are related to
this research study topic, “The Problem of Anxiety and Stress Among University Students”.
The theory is regarding reasons why university students are having anxiety and stress in their
daily life.

2.1 What is the level of anxiety and stress among university students?

First, it is important for us to know the factors before we measure the level of
anxiety and stress among university students. According to Kumari and Jain (2014), the
factor that affects the level of anxiety and stress is the issue of lifestyle, which
incorporates deficient rest, poor nourishment and absence of effective arrangement of
the accessible time. When a student does not plan the accessible time, he/she could not

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have enough time to cover the syllabus, they might change their studying style and
always think whether they could pass or fail in exam (Khadijah, 2013).

Frequency of examination, syllabus in subject, no enough time for physical

activity and peers’ competition (Swaminathan, A., Viswanathan, S., Gnanadurai, T.,
Ayyavoo, S., Manickam, T., 2015) may affect student’s academic as well as time
management which both are important for the university students.

Next, university students, particularly first year undergraduate students, tend to

be having more pressure (D'Zurilla and Sheedy, 1991) compared to senior year
university students because of the transitional idea of university life (Towbes and
Cohen, 1996). They should adapt to being far from home for the first time, keep
academic achievement in high level and adapt to new social surroundings. Thus, they
might have some struggles in coping with university life which is a new thing to them.

The measure of anxiety and stress that a student experienced might be

influenced by the ability of the student to adequately adapt to occasions and situations
that are very stressful (D'Zurilla and Sheedy, 1991). If the stress and anxiety cannot be
managed in any effective ways, the student feels lonelier and more nervous, and in
addition getting not enough sleep and inordinate worrying may happen (Wright, 1967).
Thus, it will affect student’s involvement with some activities and events within and
outside of university.
Moreover, according to Khadijah (2013), the students who are least satisfied in
social life have high tendency to have stress. This can be proved by the factors in
psychosocial term of such as student’s living condition in the campus and adaption with
roommate (Swaminathan, A., Viswanathan, S., Gnanadurai, T., Ayyavoo, S.,
Manickam, T., 2015). Relationship with roommates and being away from home has
potential to give a huge impact in level of anxiety and stress to those students in term
of psychology (Khadijah, 2013).

2.2 What are the effects of anxiety and stress among university students?

There are effects from anxiety and stress which ought to be overcome. The
adverse effects of psychological distress among students lessen their confidence which
can create many problems to personal and professional levels that leads to college
dropout, impaired ability to work efficiently, poor knowledge on academic, broken

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relationship and suicide (N. Mutalik, S. Moni, S. Choudhari, G Bhogale,2016).

Confidence is a vital part in people mindset where it can control people’s ability to do
anything. Without confidence, they tend to create mistakes and problems that gives
burden to society and themselves. Great students are the one who can overcome their
problems with confidence and take care of the problems smartly.
Furthermore, failure to detect and address to these mental disorders will
unfortunately lead to increased psychological morbidity with unwanted impacts all
through their professions and lives (Teh, C.K., Ngo, C.W., Zulkifli, R.A., Vellasamy,
R. and Suresh, K., 2015). Sometimes, these people do not want to see the counsellor or
the psychiatrist because they assume that they are not having these mental illnesses.
They think they can overcome it naturally but it is vice versa. This illness can cause the
unwanted ending of a student.
Above from that, students who experienced anxiety and stress may be resistant
to follow guidelines of the universities or any academic institution and disrespectfully
engaging with the instructors. Their focus on anger may cause overall works to be
burden (Douglas Carlson, 2016). One of the reasons the institution’s rules become
chaos are having a lot of student that believed have this mental disorder. Mental illness
can overpower their mind that can misleading towards the rules.

2.3 How to reduce anxiety and stress among university students?

There are few ways to reduce stress and anxiety. Cohen (2018) states that there
is no case to totally escape from stress, there are some steps to get a best support on the
things that make it, how you react to it and what is does to you. It depends on how to
handle it and the outcome when it stimulates. This is really dangerous as it can bring
down a road the worst stress you can imagine.

One of the effective ways to reduce stress and anxiety, Jennings (2018) said
aromatherapy can relieve anxiety and stress. Aromatherapy is the massage oil with
essential oil combine with fragrance such as lavender and other. The scent of massage
oil let you feel calm and stress-free. For student who are find aromatherapy is
expensive, they can try scented candle as it can relieve stress and anxiety too. Some of
people have a big circle of friends, so try to find humour in daily life and free time with
humorous friends or watch a comedy show to avoid stress.

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This study hopefully can help students to care and manage their stress from getting
worst and these tips can be used in their everyday life. Besides, this study attempts to
find out the stage of level stress among UiTM students and their concern of this issues.

3.0 METHODOLOGY

The methodology that used for this study is quantitative method.

3.1 RESPONDENTS OF THE STUDY

There were thirty (30) respondents, both males and females, selected randomly
to be the sample in this survey. The respondents are Universiti Teknologi MARA
(UiTM) Shah Alam undergraduate students of Faculty of Computer and Mathematical
Science (FSKM).

3.2 INSTRUMENTS OF THE STUDY

The data for this study were collected by distributing manual questionnaire to
30 respondents.

The questionnaires, created manually, were adapted from the researchers from
University of New South Wales, Australia and a counselling team that is based in
California, USA and was piloted to 5 random students. The faculty involved is Faculty
of Computer and Mathematical Sciences as have been mentioned previously in the
report. Once piloted, the questionnaires were distributed to another 25 students of the
abovementioned faculty. No change was made to the questionnaire. The distribution of
questionnaires begins on the 5th of November 2018 until 19th of November 2018.

The questionnaire consists of 4 parts to prompt responses from the subjects. The
first part is the subjective questions regarding the university students’ background
information. The second part is the scale that is adapted from Depression, Anxiety and
Stress scale (DASS) which indicates the anxiety and stress level among university
students. In this scale, we will remove depression scale as it is not a part of the study.
The third part is about the effect from anxiety and stress which students need to choose

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options of their actions if they are having anxiety and stress in aspects of individual,
student’s academic and towards society. The last part is regarding the ways to reduce
stress and anxiety which students need to answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’ for every question that
ask whether the solutions help he/she to release stress and anxiety.

3.3 DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURE

The location where the study was conducted is Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Shah Alam campus; where the students reside. The questionnaires were distributed
manually on the 5th of November 2018 to UiTM students from Faculty of Computer
and Mathematical Sciences. The responses were recorded and analyzed by using
manual way by separating the level of anxiety and stress based on the students’
demographic information. The questionnaire has been collected responses exactly
11.59pm, 19th of November 2018.

3.4 DATA ANALYSIS METHOD

The study uses only one type of data, quantitative data. For quantitative data
(questionnaire), the data was analyzed using descriptive analysis methods. The
collected data were calculated into frequency count before it was converted in forms of
percentages for easier reference. The percentages are then presented with bar charts and
histogram created using Microsoft Excel.

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4.0 FINDINGS

4.1 BACKGROUND OF THE RESPONDENTS

Under the quantitative method, the questionnaires are randomly distributed

among the Faculty Science and Mathematics (FSKM) students in UiTM Shah Alam
and the results are collected 2 days after the questionnaires are distributed. The total
amount of respondents of the questionnaire distributed is 30 respondents.

Below table shows the percentage of students who have anxiety and stress
based on the demographic information in the questionnaire.

Female 67%
Gender
Male 33%
CS242 43%
Programme code CS240 17%
CS230 40%
First year -
Year of studies Second year -
Third year 100%
Resident 100%
Residence
Non-resident -
In relationship 67%
Relationship status
Single 33%
Least satisfied 23%
Academic performance Satisfied 70%
Very satisfied 7%
Least satisfied 10%
Social life Satisfied 67%
Very satisfied 23%
Married 93%
Parental status
Single parent/ Orphan 7%
<RM1000 10%
RM1000-RM3000 33%
Total Family Income per Month
RM3001-RM6000 50%
>RM6000 7%
Table 1: Respondents divided by demographic information
As can be seen from Table 1, all of the respondents are third year students and
majority of the respondents are female students from programme code CS242
(Actuarial Science). Out of 30 respondents, all students are staying on campus and 20
students are in relationship. 70% of the total respondents have a satisfied academic
performance; 67% of 30 respondents have a satisfied social life. This shows the most
respondents have a satisfied level in term of academic performance and social life.

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Majority of respondents have married parents and half of the respondents have total
family income per month in between RM3001 and RM6000.

4.2 REPORT OF THE FINDINGS

4.2.1 The Level of Anxiety and Stress Among University Students

ANXIETY STRESS

Severe to Normal to Severe to

RELATIONSHIP Normal to
extremely- moderate extremely-
STATUS moderate
severe severe

IN A
10 10 10 10
RELATIONSHIP

SINGLE 7 3 9 1

Table 2: 20 students in a relationship and 10 students are single.

Table 2 shows that half of the students that are in a relationship have normal to
moderate and severe to extremely-severe level of anxiety and stress. Majority of the
students who are single have normal to moderate level of anxiety and stress.

ANXIETY STRESS

Normal to Severe to
Normal to Severe to
GENDER moderate extremely-
moderate extremely-severe
severe

FEMALE 13 7 12 8

MALE 6 4 7 3

Table 3: 20 female students and 10 male students.

Table 3 shows that majority of the female students have normal to moderate
level of anxiety and stress. Meanwhile, most of the male students have normal to
moderate level of anxiety and stress.

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ANXIETY STRESS

Severe to Normal to Severe to

PARENTAL Normal to
extremely- moderate extremely-
STATUS moderate
severe severe

MARRIED 16 12 18 10

ORPHAN/SINGLE
1 1 0 2
PARENT

Table 4: 28 students have married parents and 2 are orphan/ have single parent.
Table 4 shows that majority of the students with married parents have normal
to moderate level of anxiety and stress. Meanwhile, half of the students with single
parent or orphan have normal to moderate and severe to extremely-severe level of
anxiety. However, most of the students with single parent or orphan have severe to
extremely-severe level of stress.

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ANXIETY STRESS

TOTAL INCOME Severe to Normal to Severe to

Normal to
OF extremely- moderate extremely-
moderate
FAMILY/MONTH severe severe

<RM1000 1 2 1 2

RM1000-RM3000 4 6 3 7

RM3000-RM6000 10 5 9 6

>RM6000 2 0 1 1

Table 5: 3 students have total family income of less than RM1000, 10 students have
total family income of RM1000 to RM3000, 15 students have total family income of
RM3000 to RM6000 and only 2 students have total family income more than
RM6000.
Table 5 shows that majority of the students whose total family income is less
than RM1000 have severe to extremely-severe level of anxiety and stress. Meanwhile,
most of the students whose family total income is in between RM1000 to RM3000 have
severe to extremely-severe level of anxiety and stress. For students whose family’s
income is in between RM3000 to RM6000, many of them have normal to moderate
level of anxiety and stress. All students whose total family income of more than
RM6000 have normal to moderate level of anxiety. However, half of the students whose
total family income of more than RM6000 have normal to moderate and severe to
extremely-severe level of stress.

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ANXIETY & STRESS

ACADEMIC
Normal to moderate Severe to extremely-severe
PERFORMANCE

LEAST SATISFIED 6 9

SATISFIED 5 4

VERY SATISFIED 4 2

Table 6: 15 students are less satisfied in academic performance, 9 students are

satisfied in academic performance and 6 students are very satisfied in academic
performance.
Table 6 shows that majority of the students who are least satisfied in academic
performance have severe to extremely-severe level of anxiety and stress. Meanwhile,
most of the students who are majority of the students who are satisfied in academic
performance have normal to moderate level of anxiety and stress. For students who
many of them are very satisfied in academic performance have normal to moderate level
of anxiety and stress.

ANXIETY & STRESS

SOCIAL LIFE Normal to moderate Severe to extremely-severe

LEAST SATISFIED 2 0

SATISFIED 5 2

VERY SATISFIED 15 6

Table 7: 2 students are less satisfied in social life, 7 students are satisfied in social
life and 21 students are very satisfied in social life.
Table 7 shows that majority of the students who are least satisfied in social life
have normal to moderate level of anxiety and stress. Meanwhile, most of the students
who are majority of the students who are satisfied in social life have normal to moderate
level of anxiety and stress. For students who many of them are very satisfied in social
life have normal to moderate level of anxiety and stress.

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ANXIETY & STRESS

YEAR OF STUDIES Normal to moderate Severe to extremely-severe

THIRD YEAR 5 25

Table 8: 30 students are in the third year.

Table 8 shows that majority of the students who are in the third year have severe to
extremely-severe level of anxiety and stress.

ANXIETY & STRESS

RESIDENCE
Normal to moderate Severe to extremely-severe
STATUS

RESIDENT 5 25

Table 9: 30 students are staying in campus.

Table 9 shows that majority of the students who are staying in campus have severe to
extremely-severe level of anxiety and stress.

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4.2.2 Report on questions with Effects of Anxiety and Stress Among 30 University
Students

Towards yourself
HARM OTHER PEOPLE 0

BEING ALONE 20

TALK TO MY PEERS 5

HARM MYSELF 0

GET THE COUNSELLOR 2

LISTENING TO THE MUSIC 20

CONFESS TO THE SOCIAL MEDIA 15

EAT DELICIOUS FOOD 10

Number of people

Figure 1: The Effect of Stress and Anxiety among Students Towards Individual
Above figure shows the effect of students when they get stressed and anxiety
towards themselves. The highest frequency is 20 student votes for being alone and
listening to the music. Being alone can make students clear their mind while struggling
to solve their problems. Same goes to listening to the music, it can release the pressure
and stress with the songs that calm you down. Next, confess to social media get 15
student votes which mean instead of solving the problems, the students likely to express
their feeling and confess it to the social media. Besides, eat delicious food rank fourth
with 10 student votes. Some students really enjoy spending their money towards food
which they feel food is something that really satisfying for them and never gives them
stressed. Talk to their peers get 5 student votes which shows they rarely depend to their
peers when they have a problem. And, getting the counsellor get 2 student votes which
may be like a last choice for students to settle down their problems. Last but not least
is harm themselves and other people where nobody votes for it. The students still can
think wisely and choose the right path to solve their problems rather than harming
anybody.

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Towards academic
BURDEN MY STUDY 2

FOCUS ON MY STUDY 22

FORM A STUDY GROUP 7

FINISH UP THE ASSIGNMENTS 13

SKIP CLASSES 15

GET LOWER GRADES 5

RUDE TO THE LECTURERS 0

Number of people

Figure 2: The Effect of Stress and Anxiety among Students Towards Academic
Above figure shows that focus on their study got 22 student votes. This is such
a positive vibe where they keep on study, try to solve the problems they unsatisfied in
the classes. But maybe it is because of the study made towards faculty science computer
and mathematics which is known having an excellent student in their studies. Next, the
students tend to skip classes when they are stressed with 15 student votes. Maybe
lecturer, friends or assignments given still undone make the students choose to skip
their classes. Some student will finish up their assignments when they are stressed as
there are 13 votes for it. Well, having a lot of assignments gives students stressed to
chase their dateline and by finishing them earlier is one of the solutions to come up
with. It is a different statistic with student that form a study group that got 7 votes, quiet
half from the finishing up the assignments. Maybe the students like to study alone better
than forming a group of study. This is the method of study that differ in any students.
There are 5 and 2 student votes for getting the lower grades and burden their study
respectively. Some students might have their negatives side which they will burden
their study and get a lower grade for their exams. Luckily, there is no vote for rude to
the lecturers which shows that students respect their lecturers very well.

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Towards society
HARM OTHER PEOPLE 2

MOCKING OTHER PEOPLE 3

DRIVING WITH SPEED 5

THROE THINGS AWAY 17

REVENGE WITHOUT REASON 10

EXPOSE OTHER BAD PERSONALITY 15

Number of people

Figure 3: The Effect of Stress and Anxiety among Students Towards Society
Above figure shows most students likes to throw things away with 17 votes.
Some students feel satisfied when they throw things for example, telephone when they
lose in playing games. Second, exposing other bad personality and revenge without
reason came out with 15 and 10 votes respectively. This behaviour we can see in social
media where a lot of keyboard warriors like to do such thing to make themselves satisfy
and releasing their stressed. Next, driving with speed have 5 votes which students that
overthinking about their anger cannot control the situation and driving with speed to
make them relieved. Students also tend to mock other people where they like to find a
mistake of others, commonly in social media. Last but not least is harm other people
with 2 votes where the students like to take action before thinking wisely. For example,
in football game, where the mentally fragile player will tend to make a lot of fouls which
they think harming the opponent can make them feel happier.

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4.2.3 Report on questions with The Ways to Reduce Anxiety and Stress Among
University Student

The following results shows the percentage of respondents’ feedback (30

respondents) of the solutions that can help them to reduce stress and anxiety.

Solutions Yes No
I spend at least 3 hours a week working 57% 43%
on a hobby of mine.
I spend at least 1 hour a week writing 73% 27%
personal letters, writing in a diary or
writing creatively.
I spend at least 30 minutes a week 60% 40%
talking casually with my neighbours
or my friends.
I spent my time to read the daily 43% 57%
newspaper, comics or story books.
I watch television for entertainment or 75% 25%
watch new movies at the cinema.
My day to day living is really affected 75% 25%
by my religious beliefs or my
philosophy of life.
I spend at least 30 minutes a day 37% 63%
working toward a life goal or ambition
of mine.
I try to drive in a motor vehicle faster 17% 83%
than the speed limit for the excitement
and challenge for it to avoid from
stress.
When I feel stress, eat a lot of food 77% 23%
can help me to relieve stress.
I spent my time playing game in my 50% 50%
laptop or my smartphone.
I prefer sleep when I feel stress. 63% 37%
I spent time to do something like in 23% 77%
the spa such as massage or light up
scented candle to have a nice smell.
Table 10: The percentage of respondents for the solutions to control anxiety and
stress.
The highest percentage of people agree is 77% which is eating a lot of food.
75% of people state yes to watch television for entertainment or watch new movies at
the cinema and living by religious beliefs or philosophy of life. Next, writing personal
letters, writing in a diary or writing creatively has 73% of people. Then, 63% of people
thinks sleep can help to reduce stress and anxiety. Furthermore, talking casually with
neighbours or friends has 60% of people. 57% of people agrees that working on a hobby

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can relieve stress and anxiety. In addition, there are 50% of people neither agree or
disagree to playing game on laptop or smartphone can help them to reduce stress and
anxiety.

The highest percentage of people state no is 83% which is driving in a motor

vehicle faster than the speed limit for the excitement and challenge for it can help them
to reduce stress and anxiety. Also, 77% of people disagree to spent time to do something
like in the spa such as massage or light up scented candle to have a nice smell. 63% of
people disagree that working toward a life goal or ambition help to reduce stress and
anxiety. Last but not least, read the daily newspaper, comics or story books is not help
them much to relieve stress and anxiety which got 57% of people.

4.3 DISCUSSION OF THE FINDINGS

4.3.1 The Level of Anxiety and Stress Among University Students

It is important for us to measure the level of anxiety and stress among university
students based on the demographic information given so that we can know the factors
that affects the level of anxiety and stress among university students. For the finding
and discussion, we have separated the category of anxiety and stress level into two
levels, which are normal to moderate level; and severe to extremely-severe level.

This study has shown the students who are in relationship tend to have higher
chance to have severe to extremely-severe level of anxiety and stress compared to the
students who are single. This is because relationship problem that might happen among
students who are in relationship can be a factor that affects level of anxiety and stress
among university students. Those students who are single do not have this kind of
problem, so their level of anxiety and stress is only normal to moderate.

Majority of the students with single parent or orphan are having higher anxiety
and stress level compared to the students with married parents. This is because those
students have to face their parents’ problem thus affect their university life which
become one of the factors that affects level of anxiety and stress among university
students.

Most of the students whose total family income is below than RM3000 have
severe to higher level of anxiety and stress than of the students whose total family
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income is in between RM3000 to RM6000. Based on the study by Khadijah (2013), the
students with family’s total salary is below RM1000 have tendency to have stress. It is
proven that low family income is related to the factor that affects the level of stress.
Students with financial problem due to low family income have to survive daily
expenses with higher education cost nowadays thus affect their level of anxiety and
stress. However, students whose total family income above RM6000 tend to have
higher chance to have severe to extremely-severe level of anxiety and stress compared
to the other students because their parents who earn higher salary do not have time to
be spent with them due to work commitment. Hence, it can be added to the factor that
affects the level of anxiety and stress among university students.

Many of the students who are least satisfied in academic performance have
higher level of anxiety and stress compared to the students who are satisfied and very
satisfied in academic performance. The academic performance can be affected by
examination frequency, academic syllabus, do not have time for physical activity and
peers’ competition (Swaminathan, A., Viswanathan, S., Gnanadurai, T., Ayyavoo, S.,
Manickam, T., 2015). Lack of time to cover the syllabus, studying style has changed
and students always think that they could either pass or fail in exam (Khadijah, 2013)
supported the proof that academic performance has related with the level of anxiety and
stress. The study by (Kean and Pamela, 2005) has shown that student’s academic
performance through parents’ faith and attitude has indirect related with status of
socioeconomic in family such parents’ level of studies and salary.

Most of the students who are least satisfied in social life have higher level of
anxiety and stress compared to the students who are satisfied and very satisfied in social
life. This study can be proven by Khadijah (2013) that said higher tendency to have
stress happened towards the students with least satisfied in their social life. In addition,
the students’ relationship with groupmates and roommates hugely affected the level of
anxiety and stress among university students.

Majority of the students who are in the third year have severe to extremely-
severe level of anxiety and stress. This is because they are in final semester, so they
have a lot of assignments and projects especially final year project. These burdens has
affected the third-year students in term of higher anxiety and stress level.

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Most of the students who are staying in campus have higher level of anxiety and
stress. This can be proved by the factors in term of psychosocial such as student’s living
condition in the campus and adaption with friends who live in the same room
(Swaminathan, A., Viswanathan, S., Gnanadurai, T., Ayyavoo, S., Manickam, T.,
2015). Relationship with roommates and being away from home has potential to give a
huge impact in level of anxiety and stress to those students in term of psychology
(Khadijah, 2013).

Last but not least, majority of the female and male students have normal to
moderate level of anxiety and stress. This is shown that this study did not find any
significant association between gender with anxiety and stress.

4.3.2 The Effects of Anxiety and Stress Among University Students

4.3.2.1 Towards Students

The findings show that majority students will choose to be alone, listening to
the music and confess to the social media. This result turns out to be quite similar with
the previous study from (N. Mutalik, 2016) which reduce student confidence and create
more problems when they stressed. Being alone sometimes can give a wrong path in
their thinking. They cannot think wisely and cannot compare which one is bad or good.
They are afraid to admit their wrong and try to find their good point in order to point
the problems to other people. Besides that, listening to music shows that when people
stressed, they will try to find the strength and confidence by listening to the music.
Some people might listen to the music to enjoy themselves, but the truth is it will boost
up their confidence which are good for them. Unfortunately, confess to the social media
is one of the negative effects that can create another problem. People tend to blame each
other and try to make improper jokes just to make themselves happy. This can create a
fight even in the social media.

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4.3.2.2 Towards Students’ Academic

The previous study said that stressed can lead to impaired ability to work
efficiently and poor knowledge on academic (N. Mutalik, 2016) which quiet differ from
our finding. The result turns out that students will tend to focus on their study with 22
votes which can give them a better knowledge on the academic. They will try to focus
more and more till they understand what they need to. But there are also a bad side
which the students will try to skip their classes when they are stress. Sometimes,
skipping the class have been their behaviour that lazy to attend the class, or not get
enough sleep. Lastly, they intend to finish up their assignments which one of the reasons
why they are stress. They will try as hard as they can to finish up all the assignments
and release all the burden they had been carrying on their shoulder.

4.3.2.3 Towards Society

The previous study by (Teh, 2015) show that these mental disorder lead to
unwanted impacts through their professions and lives which valid to this finding. The
study shows that students likes to throw things away that can cause harm to their
belongings or anything else like institution belonging. This kind of behaviour always
happen when the student reach their climax of stress and anxiety and they cannot think
properly other than throwing things that near to them. Next, student choose to expose
other people bad personality that can gives them more problems either through their
profession or lives. Same goes to the revenge without reason behaviour. They just want
to revenge to create a fight that gives them more problems instead of solving it.

4.3.3 The Ways to Reduce Anxiety and Stress Among University Students

Cohen (2018) said some people need help when their feelings start to have bad
influence on daily life and to implement their capabilities to have normal relationship.
To help them, there are many ways to reduce stress and anxiety. Some ways might be
effective to some people but might be not to other people. It is important for us to know
which ways are the best and effective to relieve stress and anxiety. To know which
solutions are the better, a questionnaire is carried out to 30 respondents and the results
have been collected and recorded.

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The effective ways to reduce stress and anxiety is eating a lot of food. By doing
this, people lost their minds to stressful things and focusing more on their delicious
foods. Other than that, watch television for entertainment or watch new movies at the
cinema and living by religious beliefs or philosophy of life can relieve stress and
anxiety. Besides, watching humorous movie can bring a lot of joy and laughter to a
stressful person. Jennings (2018) state that laugh can increase your immune system and
feelings. These three solutions get highest percentage of people.

There are several ways that might not be suitable or effective to some people.
Drive in a motor vehicle faster than the speed limit for the excitement and challenge for
it can be dangerous as they can cause an accident. These solutions is not appropriate to
be used to reduce stress and anxiety. Also, spent time to do something like in the spa
such as massage or light up scented candle to have a nice smell is hard to do except
during their leisure time. Lastly, working toward a life goal or ambition is not the best
or effective ways to relieve stress and anxiety as it can be affected by the situation.

In conclusion, it impossible to get rid all the stress and anxiety from our
surroundings. People need to play smart on how to handle and be strong to go through
all of this. For some people who lose on this challenge as Cohen (2018) stated acting
everything is ok is not the solution so when you need someone, ask for help as fast as
possible.

5.0 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

5.1 CONCLUSION

Based on the study’s findings and discussion above, it can be concluded that
there are numerous reasons that can lead to the problem of anxiety and stress among
university students. Majority of the respondents stated that being in relationship has
higher level of anxiety and stress compared to students who are single. Majority of the
students with single parent or orphan are having higher anxiety and stress level
compared to the students with married parents. Most of the students whose total family
income is below than RM3000 and also above RM6000 have severe to higher level of
anxiety and stress than of the students whose total family income is in between RM3000
to RM6000. Many of the students who are least satisfied in academic performance and

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social life have higher level of anxiety and stress compared to the students who are
satisfied and very satisfied in academic performance and social life respectively.
Majority of the students who are in the third year and also the students who are staying
in campus have severe to extremely-severe level of anxiety and stress. This study did
not find any significant association between gender with anxiety and stress.

Besides, there are a few effects that could happen to the students if they are
having anxiety and stress. The effects are categorized into three groups which are
individual, academic and society. For individual, most of the respondents choose to go
through suicide attempt or harm themselves. As a result, the outcome of this problem
is not as people thought. For academic perspectives, most of them choose to skip classes
and getting lower grades are normal for them. From the facts that has been stated, this
can be concluded from the aspect of society that the tendency for the students to throw
things away and expose other bad personality if they are having anxiety and stress are
higher.

To overcome this issue, there are many ways that are effective and useful to
reduce stress and anxiety. As for most of students, they choose to eat a lot of food when
they are having anxiety and stress. Not only that, it was also found that majority of
students choose to watch television for entertainment or watch new movies at the
cinema and living by religious beliefs or philosophy of life. However, many of the
respondents do not agree to drive in a motor vehicle faster than the speed limit because
it can be dangerous as they can cause an accident. Also, we can conclude that, most of
student did not choose to spend their time in the spa as they are busy as a university
student and they need to find something else that do not disturb their university life.
Lastly, most of the students do not think that working toward a life goal or ambition is
the best way to relieve stress and anxiety as it can be affected by some of the situation.

In conclusion, stress and anxiety can happen anytime and anywhere to people
and can be treated before it become worse. This stress and anxiety can be common
problem if the person know on how to handle it. A person who are in stress and anxiety
need love and attention from people. So, help people who are in needs of attention and
provide them full of love.

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5.2 RECOMMENDATIONS

There are a few recommendations that can be made for the reference of future
researchers of the study as well as any other involved. The recommendations are as
follows:

i. The study would perhaps be spread out more evenly amongst students of the
opposite gender in order to obtain a less biased result that can better represent UiTM
students as a whole.
ii. Future researchers may consider using SPSS software to analyse data in order
to acquire a more accurate representations of the findings besides gaining deeper
understanding of the data.
iii. The questionnaire could perhaps be distributed among students in a given
certain period of time (stated in the questionnaire) so as to ensure that respondents are
aware of the time limit, enabling researchers to receive answers for the questionnaire
in due time.
iv. The questionnaire could be distributed among UiTM students of other faculties
and campuses besides Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (FSKM) and
UiTM Shah Alam respectively as well, in other to acquire a better, more general result
which can represent UiTM students more accurately.
v. It is recommended that students should practise and frequently do effective and
useful ways to reduce stress and anxiety. This may be able to help the students in avoid
having severe and extremely severe level of anxiety and stress while still being in
university life.
vi. This study is useful for parents as they are the closest to their children. Their
children who are having anxiety and stress need love and attention from people
especially from the parents.
vii. This study can be used for researchers who wants to investigate this matter as
this study might be conducted in future.
viii. More time could have been allocated for the lecturers in the faculty to spend
with the students so that the lecturers could figure out the students’ problem and help
their students to solve and find the way to reduce anxiety and stress.
ix. Students may also socialize more with people who are also having the same
problem regarding anxiety and stress so that they could realize that they are not only

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the one who are facing anxiety and stress. At the same time, they can do the certain
ways to reduce anxiety and stress together.
x. The society, especially those who are involved in working life, such as
employees, they need to know this problem as they might face the same problem like
the university students. Thus, they can find the solution to reduce anxiety and stress in
the workplace.

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APPENDIX: SAMPLE OF QUESTIONNAIRE

Questionnaire:
THE PROBLEM OF ANXIETY AND STRESS AMONG UNIVERSITY
STUDENT

Date: ___________________

PART I – DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

Gender:
 Female
 Male

Programme code (Please state): ______________

Year of studies:
 First Year
 Second Year
 Third Year

Residence:
 Resident
 Non-Resident

Relationship Status:
 In a relationship
 Single

Academic Performance:
 Least satisfied
 Satisfied
 Very satisfied

Social life:
 Least satisfied
 Satisfied
 Very satisfied

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Parental Status:
 Married
 Orphan/Single parent

Total Family Income per Month:

 <RM1000
 RM1000 - RM3000
 RM3001 - RM6000
 >RM6000

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Part II – ANXIETY AND STRESS SCALE

Please read each statement and circle a number 0, 1, 2 or 3 which indicates how much the
statement applied to you over the past week. There are no right or wrong answers. Do not spend
too much time on any statement.

The rating scale is as follows:

0 Did not apply to me at all - NEVER

1 Applied to me to some degree, or some of the time - SOMETIMES

2 Applied to me to a considerable degree, or a good part of time - OFTEN

3 Applied to me very much, or most of the time - ALMOST ALWAYS

1. I found it hard to wind down. 0 1 2 3

2. I was aware of dryness of my mouth. 0 1 2 3

3. I experienced breathing difficulty (eg: excessively
rapid breathing, breathlessness in the absence of 0 1 2 3
physical exertion)
4. I tended to over-react to situations. 0 1 2 3

5. I experienced tremblings (eg: in the hands) 0 1 2 3

6. I felt that I was using a lot of nervous energy. 0 1 2 3

7. I was worried about situations in which I might
0 1 2 3
panic and make a fool of myself.
8. I found myself getting agitated. 0 1 2 3

9. I found it difficult to relax. 0 1 2 3

10. I was intolerant of anything that kept me from
0 1 2 3
getting on with what I was doing.
11. I felt I was close to panic. 0 1 2 3

12. I felt that I was rather touchy. 0 1 2 3

13. I was aware of my heart in the absence of
physical exertion (eg: sense of heart rate increase, 0 1 2 3
heart missing a beat)
14. I felt scared without any good reason. 0 1 2 3

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PART III – EFFECTS OF ANXIETY AND STRESS

There are three categories that are mainly affected by the anxiety and stress which are towards
yourselves, your academic and society. If you are having stress and anxiety, what will you do?

(PLEASE TICK MAXIMUM 3 CHOICE FOR EACH CATEGORY)

Towards yourself

 Harm other people

 Being alone
 Talk to my peers
 Harm myself
 Get the counsellor
 Listening to the music
 Confess to the social media
 Eat delicious food

Towards academic

 Burden my study
 Focus on my study
 Form a study group
 Finish up the assignments
 Skip classes
 Get lower grades
 Rude to the lecturers

Towards society

 Harm other people

 Mocking other people
 Driving with speed
 Throw things away
 Revenge without reason
 Expose others bad personality

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PART IV: WAYS TO REDUCE STRESS AND ANXIETY

Based on the questions below, are these solutions can help you to release stress?

(PLEASE CHOOSE EITHER ‘YES’ OR ‘NO’ ONLY)

I spend less than three Yes No

hours a week working on a
hobby of mine.

I spend less than one Yes No

hour a week writing personal
letters, writing in a diary
or writing creatively.
I spend less than 30 minutes Yes No
a week talking casually with
my neighbours.
I spent my time to read the Yes No
daily newspaper.
I watch television for Yes No
entertainment more than one
hour a day.
My day to day living is really Yes No
affected by my religious beliefs
or my philosophy of life.
I spend less than 30 minutes Yes No
a day working toward a life
goal or ambition of mine.

When I feel stressed, it is Yes No

difficult for me to plan time
and activities to constructively
release my stress.
I try to drive in a motor vehicle Yes No
faster than the speed limit for
the excitement and challenge
for it to avoid from stress.

Thank you for your cooperation!

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