“Behind the Sorrow: A Study of a Students Experiencing Stress in an Academic Pressure”

Stress affects people from all walks of life regardless of age and gender, anything that creates

a challenge or a threat to people’s comfort is a stress. And it can be found everywhere, that is at home,

with friends, and more especially in school. It simply cannot be avoided because it’s an integral parts

of human life. Stress could be brought by many factors particularly in per pressure. The causes and

levels of stress vary from one another. No person is free from stress, regardless of how privileged,

reasonable, clever, and intelligence he may be. Everyone will be challenge in times of frustrations,

losses, changes and pressure.

To understand one’s stress, Blona (2005) stated that one needs to know what it is and its

causes, in order to cope with it well. He defined stress as any event or circumstances that trigger or

exceeds an individual effort to cope. The school is one place where a lot of people meet on a regular

basis. It is a fact that when people come together, stress is bound to happen one way or the other. So

thus, the common causes of student’s stress including their academic subjects, requirement and

projects, oral and written examinations. Therefore, Blona (2005) said that students experience stress

since some are trying their best to cope up with the demands of adapting to anew living environment,

peers, academic pressure, and etc.

“School, homework, extracurricular activities, sleep, repeat and that’s what it can be for some

of these students,” says Noelle Leonard, PhD, a senior research scientist at the New York University

College of Nursing (NYUCN, (2015). According to Leonard academic, athletic, social, and personal

challenges have been regarded as domains of “good stress” for high school aged youth. However,

there is growing awareness that many subgroups of youth experience high levels of chronic stress, to

the extent that it impedes their abilities to succeed academically, compromises their mental health

functioning, and fosters risk behavior. Furthermore, this chronic stress appears to persist into the

college years, and Leonard warns it may contribute to academic disengagement and mental health
problems among emerging adults. Concerning that students in these selective, high pressure high

schools can get burned out even before they reach college.

This study focusses on the student’s pressure behind the sensibility has done to in relation to

their academic performance. Academic pressure that cause by stress is rampant nowadays in which

student has experience this throughout their journey in school. Usually, this will happen through high

standard of competiveness in student’s performance and if failure comes, student’s discouragement

emerges and stress will follow. However, the Philippine education system is already halfway through

its second year of its senior high program. According to the Department of Education (DepEd), the K

to 12 program is the boldest move that it has undertaken. It is no secret that there is some resistance

to the program but the government has been assuring the public that the additional two years to the

curriculum should be thought of as two years less due to employability. Their claims that a senior high

graduate can already be employed remains to be seen in a few years (Cuerpo, 2017).

There is also much to be appreciated about this program since it gives high school students a

taste of what is to come in college and when they finally seek employment. There is, however, an

overwhelming demand from the subject’s involvement. This causes too much stress on the student

and here is where the problem arises. Senior high students are faced with a tremendous amount of

stress that comes from too much homework, long test, and performance task. Wherefore, this causes

too much stress on the student and here is where the problem arises. And

Stress is a major factor to how a child force to performs academically.