Correlation between Stress Level and Patience Level of Students

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Stress is something that almost every person experience especially the students in dealing with their everyday responsibilities such as subject-related, teacher-related, classmate-related, schedule-related, classroom-related, and financial-related tasks. According to some studies, patience which includes self-control, anger management, and situation acceptance has something to do with stress in the sense that it helps them (people) handle the stress they encounter.

METHODS

This study utilized descriptive research design using adapted questionnaires to describe the characteristics of the students at one point in time in terms of their vulnerability and vigor in facing various tasks and expectations of the people around them.

RESULTS

The study found out that the stress level of students is 3.16 which is described as moderate. This means that the students sometimes feel anxious because of different reasons. Among the kinds of stressors, they encounter, a subject-related, teacher-related, classmate-related are the top sources of their stress. In terms of the level of patience, they obtained the mean score of 3.44 which is described as moderate. This means that the students can sometimes moderately control themselves, manage their anger, and accept the situation. The computed Pearson r of the correlation between student stress and patience level is 0.171886 shows a positive low correlation between the two variables. The correlation of stress and patience level is negligible correlation which means that there is no significant relationship between the stress and patience level of the students.

DISCUSSIONS

The results show the need to assist, orient, and equip the students through various symposia or orientations to help them dealing with various forms of stressors whether internal or external factors. Although, the results show that they just moderately experience this problem but the high percentage of the subject and teacher related stressors are noteworthy to explore.