Effects of Stress On The Academic Performance of Dentistry Students of National University
Effects of Stress On The Academic Performance of Dentistry Students of National University
Effects of Stress On The Academic Performance of Dentistry Students of National University
Submitted by:
Aragon, Angelika
Bugayong, Jessica
Cabaltera, May
Trasmil, Juluis
ACT 152
Chapter 1
Stress is most undermined syndrome in our society that is neglected since the element of
mental health associated with it. Mental health is the parameter for improved or enhanced
Having mentioned that, there was a need for identification of Stress and the key stressors
that are affecting the academic performance. We further refine the research by studying the effects
on Dentistry Students of National University and make it a gender base study which will help us
to differentiate between the effects and innate intuition of managing with stress in male and female
students.
For the very purpose, it was notorious that there broadly are two stressors that are external
in nature and have a solid impact on person’s abilities. These stressors include, Health Factors and
Social Factors. We are taking the Intellectual Abilities and Academic performance to be the
Our literature review will base academic performance, intellectual abilities, Stress, two
identified stressors and each dissected to an extent, and the impact of stress in academic elaboration
in both genders.
Problem
Research is carried to investigate what are stress and its factors but are influencing the
Students and is there any difference between the influence among male and female students.
Hypothesis
To find out what are the factors that causes stress in National University’s Dentistry
Students.
To find out the different effect of stress and its factors on both genders.
This study specifically examines the National University’s Dentistry Students since their
program is considered one of the most stressful college in the university. Also, this study only
focuses on the National University Dentistry Students because of the availability of resources.
Theoretical Framework
Gender
Health Factors
Intellectual Academic
Stress Performance
Factors
Social Factors
Definition of Terms
Stress – Emotional pressure suffered by a human being.
Dentistry – The field of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis and treatment of
Related Literature
Stress is the process by which an individual or a person react when opened to external or
internal problems and challenges. "the organism processes numerous systems to coordinate such
adaptive responses both at systematic and cellular levels "by this, stress has direct effect on the
brain and the whole anatomy of the body as such failure to adapt to a stressful condition can
result in brain malfunction, physiological problem and also many areas of psychological
challenge's in the form of depression, anxiety, pain and burnout (Essel and Owusu 2017).
every individual, regardless of race or cultural background. Over the past few decades, there has
been significant investigation on the issues of stress and management of stress. In addition,
university students have shown to possess a unique set of stressors which can affect their
everyday experiences.
Studies from different Universities shows that there is a correlation between stress and
academic performance of a student. Most of the stress that students experience has a negative
effect on their academic performance. According to studies, stress itself is not a problem but
problem is how we handle stress. If we are not handling it well then it will cause problems. And
if we will not handle it properly it will seriously affect our behavior and thoughts. People who
experiencing stress can be easily angry, 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. Some people withdraw social
relationships under stress and some start to cry. It’s not necessary that everyone will face all of
these. Some can have few of them and it can be different for other one but whenever person feels
Essel and Owusu said that stress is basically force applied to a person and may result in a
strain which is as a result of an unmanaged stress that is when a person is not able to handle a
challenge or problem encountered strain result. To some people, the effect is minimal which
means they are able to endure pressure whiles in others the effect is enormous and have an
adverse effect.
Chapter 3: Methodology
Research Design
Using the descriptive design, survey questionnaires was distributed to the respondents in
order to achieve the main purpose of the study which is to determine how stress affects the
make a survey that will totally define, evaluate, and interpret the status of the respondents. Since
the research should investigate the relationship of the variables without manipulating and altering
them, the best way to present this is using descriptive non-experimental correlation method. In
this method, the variables cannot be controlled but instead it relies on observation and
interactions to come to a conclusion. The research focuses on two main variables which studies
the relationship between the academic performance and stress level of dentistry major in
National University. These two are the variables being evaluated in the survey.
Population Sampling
A non-probability sampling procedure was used for selecting the participants in this
study, particularly convenience sampling and quota sampling. This technique was employed
because the sample and the place where it is conducted are accessible to researchers. The quota
sampling technique was used in getting the 30% of National University's Dentistry students to
Sampling technique was employed to select 134 students from the College of Dentristy of
National University. This was based on the fact that there were 448 students from the College of
Dentistry.
Data Instruments
In order for us, the researchers to answer the questions in our study we distributed several
survey questionnaires to the respondents. The survey questionnaires contain a wide range of
questions designed to know the effects stress in the academic performance of an accounting
student in National University. These survey questionnaires have five parts and the first part will
focus on the profile of the respondent; the name, gender, age, year and section. The second part
will tackle on how stressed they are in a daily basis during the school year. The third part
focused on the top five stress factors that affect the respondents the most. The fourth part will
concentrate on the effects of stress in the attitude of the respondents on a certain situations in
school. this part are in Likert scale form in which respondents will be tasked to indicate whether
they strongly agree, agree, undecided, disagree or strongly disagree in the given statements. The
last part will contain the midterm General weighted average of the respondents.
In gathering data, we decided to use the surveying, data mining and a self-administered
descriptive questionnaire. We used three methods because it maximizes our time and effort and
has the ability to maintain respondent’s confidentiality. The respondents will be given survey
questionnaires to provide the necessary data needed in the study. After gathering the data, the
researchers will group the responses according to the sub-problems of the study.
Statistical Treatment of Data
All the information and data that we have collected will be turned into percentage and
will be reported in a graphical and tabular forms. In order for us to turn these raw data into
1. In order to determine the profile of the respondents, their gender, GWA, the stress level
percentage and the different factors of stress that affects their academic performance the most.
Where:
% is the percentage
F is the frequency
A survey was conducted at National University, the College of Dentistry students as the
respondents to look into their perception regarding the effects and measures of stress on their
Fig. 4.1 Illustrates how stressed the students feel on the daily basis during school year.
From this chart you can see that the highest percentage (37%) went to number 10 which is also
the highest number to ranked how stressed the students are. However, none of the respondents
chose number 1 which means that all of them are experiencing stress regardless of its level.
Fig. 4.1
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2
3
1%
1%
3%
2% 4
38% 22% 5
6
7
16%
17% 8
9
10
Fig. 4.2 shows the common stressors of students. Based on the result, the top five
stressors are time pressure, course load, financial issues, family problems and health problem.
The figure below shows that course load has the highest percentage when it comes to be the
number 1 stressor among students while the environment and other factors like finding patients
for clinical trials got the lowest percentage in terms of being the number 1 stressor.
Fig. 4.2
Family Problems
Financial Issues
3% 8%
5%3% Health Problem
17% Course Load
27% Time Pressure
5%
Relationship
Social Issues
32%
Environment
Others
Figure 4.3
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Number of Students
50 47
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20 17
14 15
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concentration on class outputs in school am taking my exams or comprehension negatively
discussion quizzes
Effects of Stress
students, (40%) strongly agreed that stress affects the concentration of students on class
discussions, 45 students, (34%) agreed, 19 students (14%) disagreed and 17 students, (13%)
strongly disagreed. On the second question, 57 students, (43%) strongly agreed that stress affects
their output in school, 40 students (30%) agreed, 23 (17%) disagreed, and 14 students, (10%)
strongly disagreed. A total of 58 students, (43%) which is the highest percentage strongly agreed
that stress affects them when taking exams or quizzes. Out of 134, 47 of the students also
strongly agreed that stress affects their comprehension of lessons they are studying having the
highest percentage of 35%. The last category shows that 49 of the students (37%) strongly
Figure 4.4
1.00 - 1.50
1%
1% 1.51 - 2.00
19% 19%
2.01 - 2.50
2.51 - 3.00
students. The result shows that the range 2.01-2.50 has the highest percentage (36%), and both
Conclusion
This study was conducted to find out the effects of stress on academic performance of
individuals and as shown in the figure 4.1 in the daily basis, students feel stress regardless of its
level. The study has identified the common stressors that affect students’ academic performance.
Course load being the number one stressor strongly affects students in different scenario. The
study has also provided situation on how students affected by stress. In which in different
situation the highest percentage was always strongly agreed that stress affects when taking exam
negative effect on their academic performance where in the figure 4.4 shows that the highest
Recommendation
Based on the study and analysis of the answers of survey, stress has a great impact to
your performance in school. If students do not handled stress properly, it can affect their
physiological, psychological and behavioral actions. The researcher suggested for future
research to find ways on how students will overcome their stress on their own especially on daily
basis that they will experienced stress. Elaborate how will students manage their time to cope
with their course load. Discover strategies and guidance that will help the students of College of
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