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1) The document discusses sources of stress for senior high school students, including academic pressures from schoolwork, exams, and extracurricular activities. Family and relationship issues are also significant stressors. 2) Common hassles from daily life can contribute to stress and negatively impact well-being, even more than major events sometimes. Arguments with parents and changes in financial status are mentioned. 3) The document provides coping strategies for dealing with stress, including problem-focused approaches that address the cause of stress, and emotion-focused methods like journaling or relaxing activities to manage feelings of stress.

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Week 5 PerDev

1) The document discusses sources of stress for senior high school students, including academic pressures from schoolwork, exams, and extracurricular activities. Family and relationship issues are also significant stressors. 2) Common hassles from daily life can contribute to stress and negatively impact well-being, even more than major events sometimes. Arguments with parents and changes in financial status are mentioned. 3) The document provides coping strategies for dealing with stress, including problem-focused approaches that address the cause of stress, and emotion-focused methods like journaling or relaxing activities to manage feelings of stress.

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NATIONAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY
-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL-
What comes in your mind
when you hear or read the
term “Stress”?
Stress appears to be unavoidable in the present time; in school, at home,
while surfing the internet and even in planning for an out of town or simple
event with your family or friends. The impact of stressful events may vary, and
different factors may cause it such as the time the stressful event occurred, the
mood a person was in, the number of preexisting stressors in one’s life.
Needless to say, stress is very common even among adolescents and it is
agreed to be a major burden in teenage life. Teenagers can benefit from
learning and understanding about what stresses them and thus eventually
develop stress management skills or find ways to positively cope with the
seemingly never-ending negative events that they continue to endure.
What is stress?
• stress as the challenging stimuli or things that happen to people
like a time-pressured exam, being in an unfamiliar place, or the
death of a loved one.
• it as a person’s response to what happens to him.
• stress would be the subjective experience of distress in response
to perceived environmental problems. This means that
characterizing an event as stressful or not depends on the
person experiencing the event.
What Stresses Senior High School Students?
The sources of stress in adolescents range from the daily trivial and common
hassles of daily living to major events. Although they may appear trivial, the
common hassles contribute to negative psychological outcomes and may
even have stronger effects than negative major events. They may even pose
a threat to the well-being of adolescent. Compared to children, adolescents
encounter many new, potentially threatening, and challenging social
experiences. These changes in one’s environment cause stress as one tries
to find new ways of responding and adapting. The common sources of stress
are centered on the two most important domains of an adolescents namely,
home and school.
Below is a list of some of the common sources of stressors for
adolescents.
• Break up with girlfriend or boyfriend
• Increased arguments with parents, and between parents
• The pressure of expectations from self and others
• Change in parents’ financial status
• Serious illness or injury of a family member
• Pressure at school from teachers, coaches, grades and
• homeworkRelationships with family and friends
What Stresses Senior High School Students?

Family/Marital conflict is also another significant source


of stress that leads to depression for adolescents. Family
conflicts, parenting approaches, and relationship with family
member have been associated with reports of mental illness
among adolescents. Disagreements or arguments with
parents tend to cause depressive symptoms and
internalizing of emotions for adolescents, which can lead to
anxiety and depression (Reuter, Scaramella, Eallace &
Conger, 1999).
What Stresses Senior High School Students?
Academic-related stress, paired with interpersonal relationship stressors with
friends and family, is a crucial factor in the maintenance of the psychological &
physiological well-being of adolescents. Some school-related pressures include
academic pressure put on by parents, teachers, or him/herself to perform
exemplary in school and to obtain good grades and the pressure to excel in sports
or extracurricular activities. Trying to keep up with heavy extracurricular activities,
while maintaining highly active interpersonal relationships, and challenging oneself
to attain to attain good grades can be overwhelming and may eventually cause
anxiety. But if one is able to appraise academic pressure as a challenge and
reasonably control academic difficulties then he/she may be able to respond to all
these requirements with reasonable effort. He/she may apply problem-solving
strategies and persistence to improve his/her mental health and maybe even
his/her grades.
The Positive Side of Stress: Eustress
Eustress is the kind of stress
that is helpful in promoting one’s
growth and development by
providing sufficient challenger
that allow one to become more
resourceful and show initiative in
problem-solving
Coping Strategies and Personal Way of Coping with
Stress
· Problem-focused coping means dealing with the actual problems posed by a

stressful situation. Being issue oriented, it is objective and geared toward fixing

what is out of order. Here are some examples of emotion-focused problem coping

skills

· Emotion-focused coping on the other hand, is more subjective as it considers the

difficulties challenging the feeling states of the individual, and as such aims to

comfort and soothe the stressed person. This coping style puts immediate

importance to reducing distress and re-establishing calmness or peace rather than


Personal Ways of Coping with Stress
1. Tackle the problem
2. Create a stress journal or include the topic in your
personal journal.
3. Develop a “stress relief toolbox.”
4. Recognize how you deal with stress.
5. Find healthy ways to manage stress.
6. Take care of yourself.
7. Reach out for support.
THANK YOU.
see you again to our
next virtual classroom

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