Stresses Encountered by Senior High School Students of the Paharang National High School S.Y. 2018-2019

Abstract

Introduction

People are beset with problems and uncertainties. Students are less likely to perform because of these problems. It affects how the students think, feel and live daily. The stress of students is a life stage on how they will react and handle their problems. This affects their study causing them to be distracted and having a lot of trouble organizing their time. With this, the researchers were urged to conduct this study to identify the different stressors and the ways of coping stress among senior high school students at Paharang National High School.

Methods

A descriptive research design with a quantitative approach was used to determine the stress encountered by the students of Paharang National High School. The respondents of the study were the grade eleven and twelve students who responded to the standardized survey questionnaire. The data were analyzed and interpreted using statistical tools such as Frequency, Weighted Mean, Composite Mean, Independent t-test and One-way Analysis of Variance.

Results

The findings show that not all the students experience the same manifestations of stress in their body in terms of physical aspect. This shows that the manifestation of stress depends on how people deal with it. Further, it is found out that the behavioral aspect of students doesn't have thesame experiences. This only means that the manifestation of stress depends on how people deal with it. In terms of the emotional aspect of the students, they differ in manifestations of stress but at the same time, they have common experiences.

Discussions

Stress mostly affects students in negative ways. Based on the findings of the study, due to continuous experiences of stress in terms of physical aspect, headache is the dominant manifestation of stress that the students mostly encountered. In behavioral aspects, students don't care about their physical appearance or simply they become haggard because of stress. And lastly, in terms of the emotional aspect, being moody is the manifestation they mostly encountered. When grouped according to their profile, there is no significant difference between the sex of the students and all the variables. While behavioral and emotional both do not have a significant difference between the age of the students. However, there is no significant difference between the strand of the student and the behavioral variable only.