STUDENTS AND STRESS : 3 RESEARCH STUDY REVELATIONS
Students and stress have been highly researched topics of interest both for doctors and lay men.
According to Inez Heingen (2017), Medical students’ perceived stress and emotional distress levels are generally high, with personal resources acting as a buffer, thus supporting the population-based general stress model.
Results suggest providing individual interventions for those students, who need support in dealing with the challenges of the medical curriculum as well as addressing structural determinants of student stress such as course load and timing of exams.
D’Zurilla and Sheedy, (1991) used a prospective design to examine the relation between social problem-solving ability and later psychological stress in college students during the 1st semester of the academic year.It threw more light on the students and stress relationship.
A new social problem-solving inventory measured not only general ability, but also more specific components of the problem-solving process (e.g., problem orientation, problem-solving skills.
The results of a hierarchical multiple regression analysis in another study showed that general problem-solving ability was negatively related to later stress, even after prior stress level and number of life problems were controlled. Analyses also indicated that subjects’ problem orientation was better predictor of stress than problem-solving skills (D’Zurilla & Nezu, 1990).
Further exploring Students and stress
According to Sesay and Gbatongoh (2019) who further explored the students and stress interlinkage, Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) developed by Cohen, 1983 was used to help understand how different situations, feelings and perceived stress affect college students’.
A convenience sample of 123 college students at a Southern California comprehensive university was used. Inferential Statistics, such as t-tests and Pearson correlations, were performed to test group independence and the relationship between variables.
Although the findings of this study showed that freshmen college students reported more stress than senior college students, the perceived stress level difference was not statistically significant.
