Review of Related Literature and Studies
Review of Related Literature and Studies
Review of Related Literature and Studies
This chapter presents a survey of studies and literature that addresses the
and its effects and factors that affect the health, emotions and academic
performance of a student.
Related Literature
Benefits of stress
Did you know that some stress is good for you? An article from a post on
health.com was about the beneficial effects short-term stress may provide us.
According to Richard Shelton, M.D. (2012), the vice chair for research in the
immunity in the short term, it can make you more resilient, it motivates you to
situation feels overwhelming or beyond your control, the resulting ‘distress’ (bad
According to Sinha, V.K. in his book Academic Stress and its management
(2011), stress can manifest itself in a whole range of ways, both mental and
physical. Physical symptoms can include racing heart, panic attacks, insomnia,
is that, it can make them realize us that situation is out of our abilities or simply
it makes our perception that situation is beyond our abilities and we can’t handle
it.
different types of situation and if the situation is not favorable, it’s dangerous or
you feel threatening it alarms us and it is called anxiety. And it may cause an
unpleasant feeling about the situation and it can also have an impact on our
financial problems, academic pressures and their consequent effect on social life
especially for students of medicine and dentistry. While stressors outside the
reach of the school authorities are difficult to control, academic support including
added support during periods of transition are key areas for interventions.”
Definition of Stress
negative thoughts and feelings in a person. The same stressful situation is not
stressful for all people, and all people do not experience the same negative
event to be threatening. They stated that this emotional reaction may include
life event.
Forem defined stress as an imposition on the body and nervous system caused
by experience our body and mind can’t comfortably handle, whether relatively
mild (a loud noise, bright light, a surprise) or extremely intense (war, tsunamis,
physical or sexual abuse), which leaves a deep impression on us but which can
depth of rest necessary to dissolve this stress, clears the system day by day for
and stress that comes from schooling and education. There is often a lot of
pressure that comes along with pursuing a degree and one's education. There is
the stress of doing all of the work, balancing the time and finding time for extra-
curricular activities.
According to Nikitha et. Al. (2014), stress is the major source of anxiety
our everyday life. There are situations when we start to feel ourselves out of
help and start to disturb emotionally and other stressors. Many people consider
stress as an incident happen to them such as injury or job loss. Others think
stress is some kind of changes which happen to our physical body, behavior and
There is another focus group of Centre (2010), which says stress itself is
not a problem but problem is how we handle stress. If we are not handling it
well then it well cause problems otherwise it won’t cause any problem. And if we
will not handle it properly it will seriously affect our behavior and thoughts.
common impacts of stress upon human behavior and thoughts. They show
anger, feel depression, having problem in memorizing things, got irritate even
with no reason and start to feel sad. Stress also changes their behavior some
times. People start to eat too much or too little due to stress, some starts to
taking drugs or smoking because they feel it will give them relaxation.
refers to the totality of the bodily responses to stimuli that tend to alter the
individual.
According to Sorenmekun (2013), defined stress as an intense pressure,
tension or force on the body. He stated that if such condition persists it may
damage the systems of the body. It then shows that if stress is not instantly
break down systematically. If the intense pressure persists it may lead to death.
Related Studies
teachers expectations were the main sources of academic stress among the
adolescents, while adolescent girls had higher academic stress than boys.
According to the study of Sian Beilock (2011), said “We found that
on the frame of mind of the student going into the test,", associate professor in
reserve that people use to process information and figure out solutions during
tests. Math anxiety is fear or apprehension when just thinking about taking a
math test.
A study by Joshi (2014), noted that second year students felt more stress
in school factors than 1st year students. He also found out that prolonged and
and negative relationship between parental attachment and stress, while Parbhu
risk factor that heightened student anxiety levels and that parental emotional
support was a protective factor that contributed to better mental health among
children .
college recognition.
known university in Columbia, have just shown that external factors can stress
our cells through the control of our genes. "We found that stress-activating
factors can control our genes by turning on certain genes that were supposed to
be silenced. It is very important that some genes are on and others are off in
order to ensure normal development and correct function of our cells later in
The study of Dr. Ed Ehlinger (2015), found that the ability to manage
stress was equally important. Students who said they were able to handle their
stress effectively performed much better than those who said they couldn’t. This
with the resource they need to learn how to manage stress, Dr. Ehlinger said. “If
students can manage their stress, then their stress level will not matter.”
The study of Brackney, B.E. and Karabchick, S.A. (2011), found emotional
stress had an average GPA of 3.3. “While this may seem like a small difference in
GPA, when you are looking at over 9,000 students the impact of this difference is
huge,” said , director of Boynton Health Services and a lead author of the study.
The study of Schafer (2014), revealed that the most irritating daily hassles
little time, writing term papers, taking tests, future plans, and boring instructors.
Stress associated with academic activities has been linked to various negative
stressor by students was school and fear related stressors. Many teenagers tend
The study of Sarmany (2014), studied the load and stress among
students. Results showed that students with low Grade Point Average (GPA)
used less effective stress coping strategies and assumed test situation as being
significantly more stressful girls showed higher level of stress than boys. A
significant negative correlation between GPA and actual duration of sleep was
observed.
According to the study of Xia and Sha. (2013), examined the relationship
among different stress sources, coping strategies and female university students’
results indicated that (1) the predictive effects of the stress and coping strategies
on negative feeling were significant. (2) The process model about stress, coping
strategies and negative feelings were different across sources in several aspects.
The study of Huan, Yeo, Ang, and Chong (2014), investigated the role of
stress and no two-way interactions were found between optimism and gender of
the participants.
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