Coping With Stress In High School

Stress is a common factor in the lives of every individual, notwithstanding of what each other’s race or even cultural background (Garrett, 2001). If stress and anxiety is present for a long time, it may be very difficult to cope with or even a health risk. Stress may become dangerous when it doesn’t allow yourself to preform your daily needs like you usually do. There are many ways in how to cope with stress and everyone deals with it to the best of their ability. As the academic expectation increase every following year of high school, the expectations also increase. Academic success includes meeting the educational expectations and being able to be at the standards of the school board. According to Lau (2002), there were three main clusters …show more content…
For the students that are placed these in college preparatory programs, such as the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, the amount of stress may be greater than usually (Suldo, Shaunessy, Hardesty, 2008). There were 319 students that participated in general but 162 are from the IB program where as the other 157 students are in general education. They found out that the main source of the stress experienced by IB students was connected to academic requirements that were necessary. All participants attended one high school in a rural southeastern state. This school was selected because it contained an IB program as well as a general education program in the same school building. Students in both programs were expected to meet the curricular requirements that were necessary for graduation, but students in the IB program must also complete the IBO requirements. Once they were given consent to preform all of these, all the student’s that are participants in all of this received a letter from the research team explaining what the study was and that they needed written parent permission for students' participation. For the results, there was 7 factors that were collected in order …show more content…
Stress normally occur when you feel pressured to get a certain academic evaluation or when you feel uneasy within the school setting. High school is the place when students generally are academically challenged. Therefore, test anxiety may be experienced for the first time or with increased as the school year continues. No matter where you are in your school journey, having a good night rest, thinking positive, using relaxation techniques, and seeking guidance will help you with coping and managing stress that come along with academic success can help you not only enjoy but succeed while in High