CHAPTER 4

PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS, AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA

Presentation, Analysis, and Interpretation of the results from the test conducted about

this study are presented in this chapter.

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Figure 4.1 The Sources of Students’ Stress Graph

Figure 4.1 Shows the graph of the main sources of the students’ stress. Figure 4.1 show

the graph of the main sources of the students’ stress. It is clear to see that the students reported

that their sources of stress were: 1) Academic requirements, 24.30%; 2) financial problems,

17.80, followed by 3) examinations, 14.24%; 4) family problems’ 13.12%; 5) relationships,

8.90%; 6) peer pressure, 8.10%; 7) personal health problem, 6.90% and lastly 8) bullying which

gained only 6.40% of votes.

 It can be seen in the graph that academic requirements gained the highest votes among

all the sources of students’ stress. This means that academic requirements has the biggest factor

why the students become stress and apparently need improvement for their coping skills to

minimize their stress

The questionnaire and result used in finding the main sources of students’ stress was

based on the previous descriptive study by Acosta-Gomez, et al (2018) about stress in High

School Students. The students reported that exams is the main source of stress garnering 49%

of votes. It means that their greatest source of stress was the examination, which may indicate

that students need help to improve their study skills.

Meanwhile the main sources of stress affect the student level of stress. This might be

the reason why there is a very high level of stress to the grade 11 senior high school students

because of their projects and numerous paper works that need to be done on the certain dates.

This means that the three main sources of students stress namely; Academic Requirements,

Financial Problems, and Examination has a big relationship to the increase of the students’

level of stress.

This is almost similar to the study of Statistics Canada in 2011 about stress in work

places. They stated that six out of ten workers main sources of stress is their jobs itself that

increases their level of stress. “The majority of highly stressed workers (62%) identified work

as their main source of stress.” The research tells that there is a connection between the main

sources of stress and the level of stress.

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Figure 4.2 shows the classification of the students’ stress in percent. The chart used the

ISMA’s scale approach to distinguish what level of stress, the grade 11 student’s in Saint

Vincent de Paul Diocesan College experienced. It can be seen in the graph above that 52.10%

of the students voted that they experienced a very high level of stress. Meanwhile 44.44% of

the students experienced high level of stress and 2.56% of the students voted low level of stress.

This is nearly similar to the study of Chinawa (2015) “Prevalence and Factors

Associated with Susceptibility to Stress related Illnesses among Medical Students in a Nigerian

Medical School”. The study stated that 67.3% of the medical students’ has been identified that

they experienced moderate or high level of stress by using ISMA’s scale.

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