When college students first move out of their family home it can be exciting and fun for the first few weeks; then reality of the situation sets in. Many students are faced with questions such as paying for tuition and book fees, paying for the whole semester’s rent at once, what a payment plan even is, and how to juggle social life and dating, all while keeping up with homework and tests. All of this can be very stressful for students, freshmen and seniors alike, causing erratic behavior such as substance abuse street drugs and amphetamines aka ‘study buddies’, drinking alcohol, or being holed up in their room just worrying about the next exam or being numb and having no feeling at all then spiraling into an anxious and depressive state.
Introducing Psychology defines Anxiety as Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) as a “chronic excessive worry is accompanied by three or more of the following symptoms: restlessness, fatigue, concentration problems, irritability, muscle tension, and …show more content…
This conclusion could be that as a student progresses in school the anxiety grows with the increasing class difficulty and homework load; which I have personally experienced as I have advanced in my schooling. In a study cited in Baloglu, Abbasi, & Masten's (2007) article Sagar Sharma, Shahla Parnian, and Charles D. Speilberger compared the test anxiety levels of the Iranian and Indian college students and found that the Iranian students had a higher level of text anxiety than those of the Indian students in the study (Sharma, Parnian, & Speilberger, 1983). Also cited in the article by Arthur Kleinman and Byron Good in 1985, found that research of a cross-cultural study that anxiety is pretty universal although the expression from culture to culture is
Introducing Psychology defines Anxiety as Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) as a “chronic excessive worry is accompanied by three or more of the following symptoms: restlessness, fatigue, concentration problems, irritability, muscle tension, and …show more content…
This conclusion could be that as a student progresses in school the anxiety grows with the increasing class difficulty and homework load; which I have personally experienced as I have advanced in my schooling. In a study cited in Baloglu, Abbasi, & Masten's (2007) article Sagar Sharma, Shahla Parnian, and Charles D. Speilberger compared the test anxiety levels of the Iranian and Indian college students and found that the Iranian students had a higher level of text anxiety than those of the Indian students in the study (Sharma, Parnian, & Speilberger, 1983). Also cited in the article by Arthur Kleinman and Byron Good in 1985, found that research of a cross-cultural study that anxiety is pretty universal although the expression from culture to culture is