Essay On Academic Stress Among College Students

In recent years, the intensification of young adults’ psychological needs has turned into a major mental health crisis. In her article “Kids of Helicopter parents are Sputtering Out” (Slate Magazine, July 5th, 2015), Julie Lythcott-Haims, a former dean in Stanford University and the writer of “How to Raise an Adult,” writes about her own experience of meeting college students with mental disorders and relates it to the upbringing of the students. She states that helicopter parenting causes negative impacts on children. They assert high expectations of their children’s academic performances and plan their children’s future. The young generation then becomes ignorant and dependent on their parents, believing that “[Their] parents know what’s

Academic stress that acts on students is becoming greater when students are enrolled in a higher level course and when students have a competitive environment. The level of difficulty of a course increases when a student enrolls in a higher level course and might have a hard time understanding the syllabus. Therefore, they have to spend more time in that particular subject as they struggle to absorb all the knowledge presented during lecture hour. In the meantime, they need to work on other courses. The heavy academic workload tends to apply stress on students. If they do not have a good time management and fail to cope with the intense academic stress, they will develop mental health problems. Besides that, competitive academic environment tends to produce more aggressive students. As an example, competition arises in a classroom when the students are challenged face-to-face to compete for A’s. This forces an individual to outperform other students in order to get the grade they desire. However, effort and hard work does not always pays off. Putting in hard work without getting any reward is very discouraging yet disappointing. Negative emotions trap students who face disappointments and causes them to be diagnosed with mental health

It should be treated as a serious problem. College and parents have equal responsibility to save our younger generation. All colleges should improve on their methods of handling mental health issues, such as increasing mental health care awareness among students and creating counselling sessions that are easily assessed to students. Parents should only support and motivate their children instead of being over involved in their children’s life. More can be done and must be done to prevent this mass phenomenon from happening, let’s join hand and make a difference by putting back the smiles that have been lost on the faces of the