The Level of Academic Stress among the Senior High School Students of Maddela Comprehensive High School

Authors

  • Ace Valfort Galapon

Keywords:

Academic stress, academic factors

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Stress is perceived in different ways and may mean different things to different individuals. It is perceived as events or situation that causes individuals to feel tension, pressure, or negative emotions including anxiety or anger. Academic Stress is a significant source of stress for many students covering not only examinations but also other academically related stressors such as fear of logging behind in the homework, writing assignment, working in individual and group projects, time pressure, lack of financial support, concern about academic ability, scheduling classes and required motivation to study. In this study we determine the level of academic stress among the students.

 

METHODS

A descriptive type of research by the use of survey questionnaire was followed in order to know the levels of academic stress of Senior High School students. It is composed of two parts namely demographic profile and level of academic stress in terms of academic factors namely written outputs, performance tasks and quarterly examination and other factors namely co-curricular activities and class scheduling, was administered to the two hundred seventy-four respondents who were randomly chosen. Data was analyzed through the help of SPSS 16, student version.

 

RESULTS

The two hundred seventy-four (274) respondents were dominated by 158 females (57.7%). The respondents find academic activities namely written outputs, performance tasks and quarterly examinations and other factors namely co-curricular activities, class scheduling and financial matters stressful. Furthermore, no significant difference is measured in the level of academic stress of the respondents in written outputs, performance tasks and other factors namely cocurricular activities, class scheduling and financial matters when grouped according to sex.

However, a significant difference in the level of academic stress of the respondents in quarterly examinations when grouped according to sex is established.

 

DISCUSSIONS

The results manifested the need for academic stress management among senior high school students. A localized school based academic stress management program should be established and conducted to guide the students in managing academic and other factors which they considered as stressors.

Published

2019-01-18