University Students: Managing Stress and Anxiety for Performance

This report explores the significant impact of mental stress on students' learning and overall academic performance, particularly within the university environment. It highlights that stress, often stemming from financial concerns, sleep disorders, and academic pressures, can lead to decreased productivity and various health issues. The report identifies common stressors such as fear of failure, interpersonal difficulties, and the pressure to meet expectations, which can result in anxiety, altered eating patterns, and even severe consequences like suicidal thoughts. To mitigate these adverse effects, the report recommends adopting a healthy lifestyle with balanced nutrition and regular exercise, prioritizing tasks to improve time management, engaging in hobbies for relaxation, developing essential skills like critical thinking and communication, and fostering a positive mindset. Ultimately, the report emphasizes the importance of managing mental stress to enhance students' productivity and overall well-being, advocating for proactive strategies and a positive outlook.

Academic Performance

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
Means of managing stress and anxiety for the students of University .......................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The young generation are the future of our nation. It is needed to provide with effective
educational facilities along with favourable environment. There are many hurdles that came
across the learning of students and one of the major obstacle is mental stress (Dalky and
Gharaibeh, 2019). It lowers down the productivity of the students and suffers with vital diseases.
The mental stress is directly aligned to lack of finance, sleeping disorder and many other health
related issues. This project report will cover the impact of mental stress on student's learning and
recommendations in order to minimise the adverse impact. In addition to that, it will also cover
suggestions that will help students in minimising the pressure of mental stress.
TASK
In today's world, every individual is suffering from mental stress related to finance,
poverty, deadlines pressure and many more. But mostly it impacts on student's learning. It
degrades the learning power of students and minimise their focus. Its become a part of their
academics as there are various internal and external expectations are placed on their shoulders.
By conducting a research it was found that fear of failure, personal adequacy and other
interpersonal difficulties are the main reasons of mental stress of student's learning. In the school
time, it is the place where often mental stress takes place. This stress leads to various diseases
such a anxiety, sleeping disorder and change in eating pattern. Academic performance also
affects the performance of students when they go in college. They are having the fear of failure
and to cope up with their class mates increases the pressure. By their academic results, they feel
themselves as inferior and starts overthinking. Many students cannot tolerate this pressure and
take wrong decision that eventually ends up their life and career. So it is needed to manage this
stress as it leads to declining the mental health and can lose the state of mind (Holder, Peterson,
Stephens and Crandall, 2019). It is very important for the students to deal with such issues and
manage their life by taking corrective decisions.
Means of managing stress and anxiety for the students of University
In today's world it is common that every student is facing stress in his either personal life
or academics that distracts them in focusing on their studies. This is one of the major reason that
limits the growth of students in their learning abilities and performance. There are various health

related issues that are associated with stress such as depression, insomnia and other vital
diseases. It affects the sleeping pattern of an individual as he is thinking about various things that
will never be going to happen. Students starts imagining the situations that affects their
performance. Social challenges, pressure of getting higher grades, less sleep and many other
factors that are responsible for affecting mental health of students Kurdyak and Patten, 2021).
But in order to manage these stress, there are various techniques that can be used in order to
minimise the risk of mental stress. Following are some ways by which students can reduce their
mental stress and live their life happily.
 Students should opt for healthy lifestyle and change their eating pattern. They should eat
healthy food that makes them fresh and agile. They should avoid eating junk that leads to
obesity. They must do regular exercise that keeps them fit and fine and it helps in
improving the mood.
 The students should sets their task and should try to attain before meeting of deadlines.
They should prioritize their task as it allows to create a routine that helps in building
skills such as time management.
 Apart from the studies, the students should find a new hobby that allows them to keep
motivating. The hobbies can be of any type such as gardening, drawing and reading
books. The student's life is very stressful and it is very important to develop a hobby so
that student can give their time on the things that they like.
 The students should learn various skills that will helps them in managing their situations.
They can prepare themselves for any circumstances. There are various skills that students
can opt for such as critical thinking skill, leadership skill and communication skill (Zhai
and Du, 2020). This skill can be utilised in both academic career and professional life. By
these skills they can get the take effective decisions of their life.
 The students should think and act positively towards any situation. This helps in getting
better thinking about the problem and can face easily. They should not think negative in
any situation or they will drive to the stress. This fills student's life with positivity and
can tackle any stressful situation.
CONCLUSION
From the above project report, it was concluded that in student's life mental stress should
be managed so that it can enhance their productivity. Mental stress invites many vital diseases

that lowers down the performance of students. This helps in focusing on the academics and
parents should know about the situation that their child is going through. So it is advisable for
students to manage their time accordingly so that they can get the time of doing their favourite
work. They should make a time table or schedule that helps in managing their task. There are
various ways by which students can minimise their stress and lives happily. Finally, sytudnets
should think positively and this is the main key driver in eliminating the stress from student's
life.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Dalky, H.F. and Gharaibeh, A., 2019, April. Depression, anxiety, and stress among college
students in Jordan and their need for mental health services. In Nursing forum (Vol. 54,
No. 2, pp. 205-212).
Holder, S.M., Peterson, E.R., Stephens, R. and Crandall, L.A., 2019. Stigma in mental health at
the macro and micro levels: Implications for mental health consumers and
professionals. Community Mental Health Journal, 55(3), pp.369-374.
Kurdyak, P. and Patten, S., 2021. The burden of mental illness and evidence-informed mental
health policy development. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry,
p.07067437211021299.
Zhai, Y. and Du, X., 2020. Mental health care for international Chinese students affected by the
COVID-19 outbreak. The Lancet Psychiatry, 7(4), p.e22.