STRESS MANAGEMENT AMONG SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

A Practical Research Presented to the Faculty of

Bobontugan National High School
Bobontugan, Jasaan, Misamis Oriental

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

for Senior High School

Mitchelyn A. Virtudazo
Sophia Hyacinth P. Villegas
Alex D. Virtudazo
Jan Kenneth G. Macapundag
Argie T. Madronero
Rodel Casiño
James Russel Ll. Ninon
Rechie C. Curtina
Mark Lester Abellanosa

September 11, 2019

 Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

Stress is a condition of mental pressure for particular individuals facing

problems from environmental and social well-being which leads to so many

diseases. Young age is the critical period because at this time youth faces lots of

changes in every minute of each life. It is an unavoidable phenomenon in every

aspect of human life, stress may affect the brain during stage of maturation. Some

young ages commit suicide because they can’t handle the stress that they

encounter in their lives. Stress is a part of our lives and can have both beneficial

and negative effects. It has negative effect because it can give symptoms that can

affect the body, thoughts, feelings and behavior.

Since some students suffer stress, this study aims to find out the common

symptoms of stress because not all headaches are normal it can affect our brain

also, then the causes of stress and to suggest stress management strategies for

the senior high school students to get rid of it.

This study is very important among senior high students because it will let

them know about the disadvantages of having stress for their entire life which may

lead to different illnesses. It will help them to have some stress management to

lessen their stress levels. It is also important among the parents for them to look

after their children and help them manage stress.

Statement of the Problem

This study sought to determine if the Senior High student’s stress levels are
already high and alarming and to determine also the reason of this. This study
attempted to answer the following questions:

1. What stresses the Senior High students the most?

2. How does stress affect the students learning?

3. What to do to relieve stress?

4. What problems they most encounter at school causing stress?

Significance of the Study

This study will be beneficial to the following:

 Senior High Students- to let them aware about the disadvantages of

having stress for their students’ life which may lead to different illnesses.

 Parents- to make them aware of their children’s struggle of stress and look
after them and help them manage stress.

 Teachers- to depict stress on their students and guide them how to cope
up with stress.

 Future Researchers- this can be used as reference for future studies in

exploring other ideas about the disadvantage and danger of stress.

Scope and Limitation

This study limits only on reasons of students’ stress, to have a stress coping

mechanism and will also tackle its disadvantages. The respondents are the Senior

High School students of Bobontugan National High School.

 This study aims to get respondents from Bobontugan Senior High School

Grade 11 and Grade 12 school year 2019-2020 who will be the bridge to this

research to be successful.

Definition of Terms

In order to help the readers understand the discussion in this paper, the
following terms are operationally defined. The terms defined are according to how
they were used in this study:

 Stress- is a feeling that people have when they are overloaded and

struggling to cope with demands. It can come from any event or thoughts

that makes you feel frustrated, angry, or nervous.

 Acute Stress- most common and frequent presentation. It is most

often caused by reactive thinking.

 Episodic Acute Stress- People who frequently experience acute

stress, or whose lives present with frequent triggers of stress have

episodic acute stress.

 Chronic Stress- most harmful type of stress. It can also set in when

an individual feels hopeless, does not see an escape from the cause

of stress, and gives up on

seeking solutions.
 Stress Management- is a wide spectrum of techniques and

psychotherapies aimed at controlling a person’s level of stress, especially

chronic stress, usually for the purpose of and for the motive of improving

everyday functioning.

 Problem- a matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and

needing to be dealt with and overcome.

 Chapter 2

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Local

Blona (2005) claims that students experience stress since some are trying

to cope with the demands of adapting to a new living environment, new peers,

academic pressure, and sexual concerns. Being in college can also put financial

stress on the students and their families. These situations can leave them with

trembling hands, tense muscles, migraine, headache, and multiple other

symptoms of stress performance or reduce the student to ineffectiveness.

According to Arcelie G. Santos (2018) stress is inevitable in any condition

and situation. Even a person who is wealthy, powerful, attractive, or happy may

experience a stress. However, stress may take differently depending on the

situation and how on perceives stress.

Based on the study of Mazo (2015) entitled, “Cause, Effects of Stress, and

the Coping Mechanism of the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

Students in a Philippine University” it tested that thesis writing/research and school

requirements/projects were the most common causes of stress. Sleepless nights

and irritable/moody feeling were the common effects of stress. There was a

disparity on the causes and effect of stress between the male and female
respondents. The use of computer and praying to God were the common stress

coping mechanism.

Duque (2007) cited common effects of stress. These are insomnia,

headaches, backaches, constipation, diarrhea, high blood pressure, heart disease,

depression and alcohol, tobacco or drug use.

Based on the study entitled “Stressors and Stress Responses of Filipino

College students” Dy et al. (2015), the study determined the stressors and stress

responses of Filipino college in relation to sex, course and academic classification.

The top five overall stressors of the respondents were academic difficulty of subject

matter, work load due to subjects, time management because of subjects,

responsibilities due to being on one’s own, and time management.

Foreign

Based on Rogers and Yassin (2003), it is important for students to develop

different coping strategies in order to encounter and manage stressful conditions.

If not handled well, the stressors that originated from financial problems, sleep

deprivation, societal activities and many more can affect student’s ability to

perform.
 Rogers and Yassin (2003) Stress needs to develop different coping

strategies for them to manage stressful condition every day. If students were not

able to manage his/her stress, the stressors coming from financial problems, sleep

deprivation, societal activities and many more can affect the ability of students to

perform

Lin Zhang, Wenbo Che & Bing Li (2003) Studies show that the mental

stresses of college students come from two aspects; one is the personal stress,

including stress from family, stress from adaptability, stress from health, stress

from relationship, stress from low self-esteem, and stress from frustration. The

other is the social environmental stress, including stress from interpersonal

communication, stress from occupation choice, emotional stress and stress from

college.

Furong Wang & Huixiang (2001) they make a comparative study of mental

stress of different types of college students and conclude that the mental stress of

boys are bigger, longer and stronger than the girls. The mental stress grow-along

with grades, reach maximum at junior year, and slightly decrease at the senior

year.

Based on Furr, Westefeld, McConell and Jenkins (2001) 53% of college

students marked their selves as being depressed since first, that makes the reason

why academic issues, loneliness, financial difficult, social relationship problems

becomes a stress encounter by those college students. To be include, 9% of those

students reported suicidal ideation.

According to Morris, Books and May (2003) they started that pressure in

stress and stressors is not needed consistently for all the college students, where

in they have been discover the differentiation between traditional and non-

traditional. In preferring the present study, it may include the same attributes on

academic issues, loneliness, financial and social relationship problems. In short,

the following studies present the same kind of manner.

According to Dixon and Ro (2005) all of those people encounter stress that

leads to rapid bodily changing which makes feelings of emotion unrest causing the

body strains with the body part. Repeated stressful situations, may lead to cause

rapid tension and pressures that contributed to physical and psychological

problems.

Based on D’zurilla and Sheedy (1991), they define stress from the medical

dictionary that dwells on any situation which brings to evokes negative thoughts

and feeling among those person, this means that people been encounter stress

will have different experiences in times of dealing the pressure.

 Segal (2013) It is important that the person who have been influenced by

the individual’s ability will effectively adapt a kind of situations, but they may differ

in dealing it.

Humphrey, Yow & Bowen (2000) Stress is described as any factor that

makes adaptation to an environment difficult for the individual to maintain a State

of equilibrium between himself and the external environment.

 Chapter 3
RESEARCH METHOD

This chapter present the research design, participants of the study,

sampling procedure, research instrument, scoring procedure, data gathering

procedure and statistical treatment of the data.

Research Design
This study used the descriptive design to describe, as well as explain, or

validate some sort of hypothesis or objective when it comes to a specific group of

people.

Participants of the Study

The participants of the study were the 40 senior high students of

Bobontugan National High School during School Year 2019-2020. 20 Grade 11

and 20 also in Grade 12, 10 males and 10 females.

The Research Instrument

In this study, the questionnaires were the main tool to gather the data in

order to obtain accurate informations. The questionnaire was made to be easily

understood by the students to assess the risk factors of stress and how it can affect

an adolescent.
Data Gathering Procedures

To observe the system and smoothness of the implementation of data, and

in gathering; the following procedure was ensured.

First, the researchers will make an approval letter for the principal to

conduct a survey.

Second, asked permission to conduct the research from the school principal

to follow up the conduct of the study in order to obtain the desired data and

information.

Third, the researchers will inform the teacher/adviser to have a survey to be

answered by the students/participants.