The Effects of Stress in the Academic Performances of Grade 12 ABM Students in Bestlink College of the Philippines School Year 2018-2019

Abstract

Stress as commonly experienced by most of the people, making them feel pressured in their daily decisions in life resulting to different unexpected or expected outcomes. Stress is associated with the major life events, daily hassles, and changes in life, this experienced also affect the academic life of every student. The purposed of this study is to assess the effects of stress in the academic performance of Grade 12 Accountancy, Business and Management students, in order to address this affect and overcome academic stress and pressured. A qualitative method was used in the study. Using descriptive research design it focused on the assessment of four academic variables identified as affected by stress, these were; Assignments, Written exams, Group activities, and Attendance. Data were gathered by distributing questionnaires to the target respondents. The results of the study revealed that stress affects the academic performances of Grade 12 ABM students in terms of (1) Assignments -students must be prioritize their assignments after class, but stress caused delayed of making the assignment resulting to low quality output and low scores (2) Written exams –stress affects the concentration and preparation of the students for the exams, it resulted to low scores that directly affects the grades of the students (3) Group activities –stress hindered the students to participate actively in the group activities, affecting their performance and group score (4) Attendance –stress students experience a hard time in waking up early, tendency they came late in the class affecting their records in their attendance. The results demonstrate the need for the parents with the help of teachers and school administrators to guide and counsel the Grade 12 ABM students who were experiencing stress. With proper guidance, students were able to handle academic stress and pressure without affecting the quality of their outputs and scores in written exams. With this parent, teachers and school administrators ensured the academic success of the students. This recommends a further study on the factors causing stress to directly address it effects in the academic performance of the Grade 12 ABM students.