Introduction
College is inherently stressful due to the elevated academic rigors that face the student—typically a stark contrast from their prior high school years. The stress can come from many different areas of the student’s life, and the increased academic stress can have significant effects on the student including psychological and biological impacts. The solution to reducing the stress and therefore improving the health and future in students does not fall to the university decreasing the rigor of their courses, therefore allowing every student a passing grade and a degree. The universities need to mitigate this stress by providing more support to the student. Alleviating this inherent academic stress can be summarized by the fact …show more content…
When examining academic stress in first year college students, the idea of mattering most significantly contributed to their perceived levels of stress (Rayle, 2007). In senior year college students who withdrew in their final year, a notable trend between the students was an absence of social support. Besides teaching study skills, there are other slightly nontraditional solutions to decreasing levels of stress in the student population. A student’s feelings of preparedness and managing their expectations of the their college education is a significant factor in perceived levels of academic stress. Social support is critical to the influence of academic stress levels as well, with students who have appropriate support showing significant differences to their peers who do not have support. The topic of college student stress needs to be examined more to hopefully pinpoint a cause in a recent increase in stress, as well as investigate possible …show more content…
Therefore career search has a large impact on the student’s stress, falling into one of the top ten sources of extreme stress in students (Bieter, 2015). The students’ belief in their ability to search for a career-oriented job is called career search self-efficacy (CSSE). Older research has shown a relationship between CSSE and psychological stress in a student. Typically, decreased CSSE results in an increased failure of career search, which also shows a relationship with higher stress levels. This could either be interpreted as increased failure in career search leads to stress, or the reverse that increased stress leads to increased career search failure (Kanfer et al., 2001, Murphy & Athanasou, 1999). A more recent study has confirmed this relationship, as well as looking further into the relationship of both CSSE and psychological distress and their impact on psychological resources (Yang, 2015). The severity of the stress for career search is largely because it will be the students’ first time seeking a career that will be incorporated into their
College is inherently stressful due to the elevated academic rigors that face the student—typically a stark contrast from their prior high school years. The stress can come from many different areas of the student’s life, and the increased academic stress can have significant effects on the student including psychological and biological impacts. The solution to reducing the stress and therefore improving the health and future in students does not fall to the university decreasing the rigor of their courses, therefore allowing every student a passing grade and a degree. The universities need to mitigate this stress by providing more support to the student. Alleviating this inherent academic stress can be summarized by the fact …show more content…
When examining academic stress in first year college students, the idea of mattering most significantly contributed to their perceived levels of stress (Rayle, 2007). In senior year college students who withdrew in their final year, a notable trend between the students was an absence of social support. Besides teaching study skills, there are other slightly nontraditional solutions to decreasing levels of stress in the student population. A student’s feelings of preparedness and managing their expectations of the their college education is a significant factor in perceived levels of academic stress. Social support is critical to the influence of academic stress levels as well, with students who have appropriate support showing significant differences to their peers who do not have support. The topic of college student stress needs to be examined more to hopefully pinpoint a cause in a recent increase in stress, as well as investigate possible …show more content…
Therefore career search has a large impact on the student’s stress, falling into one of the top ten sources of extreme stress in students (Bieter, 2015). The students’ belief in their ability to search for a career-oriented job is called career search self-efficacy (CSSE). Older research has shown a relationship between CSSE and psychological stress in a student. Typically, decreased CSSE results in an increased failure of career search, which also shows a relationship with higher stress levels. This could either be interpreted as increased failure in career search leads to stress, or the reverse that increased stress leads to increased career search failure (Kanfer et al., 2001, Murphy & Athanasou, 1999). A more recent study has confirmed this relationship, as well as looking further into the relationship of both CSSE and psychological distress and their impact on psychological resources (Yang, 2015). The severity of the stress for career search is largely because it will be the students’ first time seeking a career that will be incorporated into their