Poor Stress Management and Its Effects on Students' Learning, Health and Well-being

Assessment 2:
Individual Case Study
Report

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Poor stress management can affect students’ learning, health and well-being......................1
Effective means of managing stress, feeling anxious, or nervous for university students.....2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Stress refers to a condition when an individual feels emotional, frustrated, angry, nervous,
physically or mentally tensed for performing a challenging task. As the requirements in the
educational field are becoming more stringent within every level of students' life their level of
stress is also rising. The students everywhere experience much stress with their academic times
in the University which affects their learning and educational activities. A certain level of stress
is normal and it can provide a support for positive growth of the students for their educational
growth within the university. But when the students are repeatedly exposed to stressful
conditions without proper management of their stress it may become a toxin that deprives them
from their learning, health and wellbeing. The following report will be discussing the poor stress
management that can affect the learning, physical and mental health and well-being of the
students in higher education. Moreover, it will be explaining about effective ways for managing
stress, feeling of anxiety or nervousness for the students in the University.
MAIN BODY
Poor stress management can affect students’ learning, health and well-being
Mental health problems are very common among the students in higher education due to
the poor stress management within their academic lives. The stress situations arise due to the fact
that attending college and higher education is a challenging time for the students because of
many expectations and need for good academic performance. Traditional college students take
admissions in the higher education institutes at younger age and are dependent on the financial
support of their parents (Braun, Weiss and Kiel, 2020). The students within higher education are
stressed due to their expectations for academic performance and sometimes they may also need
to take adult-like responsibilities without proper cognitive maturity within their life. The main
causes of stress within the life of a college student are given below.
 Time stress refers to the lack of time to accomplish the tasks that are provided to the
students in higher education like assignments, projects etc. Due to the simultaneous
assignments that are provided in higher education from many teachers altogether
generates workload and time deficiency creating stress for the students.
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