Understanding the dominant factors of stress influence stress awareness among undergraduate students / Lesabbath Uti Christopher

Stress can come in different ways for a particular person. Stress is also viewed as the body's reaction, both neurologically and physiologically, to adapt to a new condition (Franken, 1994). Students often get stress due to failure in academics, financial problems, health problems, loss of a family member and social problems around them. The three most dominant factor of stress are time management, financial and academic performance. However, stress also can be defined as a real or perceived imbalance between environmental demands required for survival and an individual’s capacity to adapt to these requirements (Lazarus and Folkman, 1984; Chrousos and Gold, 1992; Lovallo, 1997; Pearlin, Lieberman, Menaghan, and Mullen, 1981; Weiner, 1992). For students having a bad time management and not well organized tend to get stressed. According to Idris (2009), he said that Malaysian public academics are also faced with stress due to rapid development in the Malaysian tertiary education sector. At this point, most students are really focused on their education until they forget about themselves. As a result, this pressures that hit them lead to high level of stress.