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

This report discusses the impact of poor stress management on students' learning, health, and well-being. It covers common causes of stress, such as academic pressure, financial struggles, and relationship issues, and provides strategies for managing stress, including exercise, healthy eating, and time management.

Poor stress management can affect students learning health and well-being

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Management of poor stress..........................................................................................................1
Establishment the care of strain or behaviour for college going students...................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Stress management is a strategies, techniques or a tools which are used in reducing the
stress along with reducing the negative impacts stress which affect the mental well-being or
physical well-being. There are various kind of techniques are used in managing the stress such as
mental, emotional as well as behavioural strategies. Anxiety is a condition in which people feel
unease, fear and worry. As everyone feels anxious in their life at some point but in some case
this anxious condition is an ongoing problem. This report file discussed on the stress
management as poor stress can affect the learning, health and well-being of the individual. The
report cover the all topic related to the poor stress management.
MAIN BODY
Management of poor stress
Students in higher or in secondary education can face a broad range of stress which are
related to academic demands. Some of the research indicates that the academic stress can be the
reason in reducing the academic achievement along with reducing the enthusiasm or increase the
risk of dropout from the school. There are some of the list of most common cause of the stress
are discussed such as living alone away from the home, financial struggles, Academic pressure,
Relationship issues as well as conflict with a room mate or with friends.
 Living alone away from the home- The transformation from high school to college is
exciting for many students because of their first time living away from their home. But
after sometimes they experience sadness as well as high stress when they get to realise
how far they are from their support system (Syed, Ali and Khan., 2018).
 Commercial enterprise struggles- The rising cost of fee or other expenditure is a main
source of stress for many low income family background students. There is a study on
this topic has found that more than 70% of students experienced the financial stress due
to increasing the fee structure of academics.
 Academic pressure- The one of the most common problem from which the student can
stress out is academic performance. There are variety of pressure were placed on student
by academic related to their performance which can make a huge negative impact on the
mental health (Srivastava and et.al., 2020). However, this academic stress lead to mental
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health such as anxiety, depression, substance use along with declining the health issues
or well-being.
 Relationship issues- As the connection with family, friends or partners can be a good
and companion stress reliever. When this companion ship will go away, a student may
experience wide range of stress or anxiety at the same time (Singh and et.al., 2021). It is
very important to find out that the relationship is supportive or turn out to be more
stressed. The stressful relationship can make negative impact on the academic
performance or affect the mental health of an individual.
 Conflict with friends or with room mate- There is a research which acknowledge that
the conflicts with room mate or friends can make a great impact on academic grades or
increase the risk of dropout from the schools or college (Muyeng., 2022).
Establishment the care of strain or behaviour for college going students
Long term stress in these students reduce their efficacy or the effectiveness to learn and
grab the knowledge. This also suppress their cognitive power of the students which includes
concentration while performing the task or the attention during the lectures. This stress if not
controlled may lead to major upcoming health issues including heart disease, high blood pressure
that can also be followed by depression or diabetes (Verma and et. al., 2021). Their management
is important, different assistance guidance that should be interoperated to reduce the students
stress are :
 Active exercise – When one exercise, body releases endorphins which makes mind
satisfy and happy. Kids should incorporate it as this will revert their cognitive power
back. Regular exercise work as a aid to liberate development components in the body. It
is not that they have to got to gym daily but they can just simply practise mindful
activities or just simply go for the walk (Shi and et. al., 2022).
 Healthy eating – Over stress can effect the diet as it either lead to binge eating which can
be the reason of overweight or can cause appetite loss in some which will effect the
growth. In both the consequence body don't acquire effective nutrients which is need to
be prevented on time. Students should incorporate high protein or fibrous rich food which
will support the growth (Reis and et. al., 2021).
 Proper sleep – Student should follow the effective sleeping cycle as body needs rest to
function in a decorous manner. Rest is required by the body to boost immunity or to
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strengthen the mind power. They should be counsel to take at least 7-8 hours of sleep
daily. There are students which have trouble in sleeping they might be guided to take bath
before sleeping as it will relax the body and mind both in a positive manner (Piergiovanni
and Depaula, 2018).
 Make friends – However, students should share their feelings either with their family or
the friends to reduce the overthinking. While sharing they will acquire some effective
actions that may work as a aid to solve the issue they are facing. Either they should
comprehend in listening effective podcast or video's which will motivate them.
 Manage time – One of the reason for the stress is they are not able to complete the given
task on time. They should practise different time management and need to organized their
workplace to feel fresh. To incorporate it they can make the to-do list every morning
(Yusufov and et. al., 2019).
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that on around every 1 in 4 student
experiences the stress which is the major factor that lead to the students poor concentration and
willingness in studies. However, the reason for the stress is vital which includes pressure of
studies and good marks from the parents, competitions in class by teachers. This also include
financial pressure and many other. This can be manage though incorporating health diet, exercise
and different other factors.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
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management among Argentinean university students. Revista mexicana de investigación
educativa, 23(77), pp.413-432.
Reis, A., Saheb, R., Parish, P., Earl, A., Klupp, N. and Sperandei, S., 2021. How I cope at
university: Self‐directed stress management strategies of Australian students. Stress and
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Shi, J., Li, T., Chang, P., Wang, Z. and Hu, L., 2022. Education curriculum for surgical interns
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Singh, K., Garg, R., Jain, P., Jain, N. and Garg, N., 2021. Assessment of examination stress and
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Srivastava, R., Jyoti, B., Pradhan, D., Kumar, M. and Priyadarshi, P., 2020. Evaluating the stress
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