Academic Stress and Coping Mechanisms Among Students: an Indian Perspective

Academic Stress among children has increase due to student feel parent’s pressure and peer pressure. This resulted harmful effect to the student who experience it. Student did not be able to handle the burden of pressure leading them to different kind of mental health problem like depression, anxiety and the worst is suicide students will take away their life. This requires immediate attention by the parents and other facilitator in school they should create strategies so that the student can’t think to take suicide. To save youth from such harmful effect of the academic stress, they should enhance an activity that will captures youths’ attention and encourage them to enhance their capabilities. Every individual should create a friendly and healthy environment.

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An Indian society is known for its value system. The education structure of India is a workbook oriented. That focuses on cramming of lesson. Many psychiatrists have articulated their apprehension leading to high accuracy of deaths by committing suicide. Students in India are ask to visit psychiatrist for school. The reason behinds this could be pressure of parents, friends and in themselves. They fear to fail their parents and friends leads to adolescence having constant failure in academic. Adolescene experience compitetion and tention towards themselves and others. Other people fail to reach the expectation of their parents and friends this leads them to anxiety and depression. Adolescence in India attempts to commit suicide everyday. The example below is the causes why students why feeling pressure in school:

Example 1: Students entering into finest institution requires more intelligence an outstanding in the field they enter,feeling them the pressure they will burden everyday in their school.

Example 2: The student an understanding parents and they feel the warmth of their unconditional love this not help the teens to feel pressure when they compare themselves to others and feel disappointed afterwards. The example problem above is Academic Stress and Inability to cope with disappointments. Suicide is the worst harmful effect of academic stress students feels any kind of mental problem because of the disappointment and they didn’t reach the expectation of others and themselves. Academic stress is a serious matter; students take their life away especially to those people who can’t handle this problem forcing them towards suicide, depression and other mental health problems related.

The academic stress is counted as a major risk factor. Anxiety has negative effects on emotional and social academic achievements of students. Depression is the most common problem for students, caused by family conflict, pressure from parents and peers and receive criticism from teacher. Academic challenges are not considered as a learning process but it is a process that youth competences. Students may think that they are not intelligent and they can’t excel in school, this means that they are a failure and unproductive in life.

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Therefore as an individual we suggest that parents should be aware if their children feel upset and they will help the child finding her/him interest like singing, dancing, drawing etc. They will enrol their children in a workshop. Advice and guide them so they won’t feel any mental health problem because parents should be the one noticing the behaviour of their children. Let them make their decisions in life just make sure to guide them; the child will feel more confident and will be capable of being independent. Awareness of academic stress Adult should encourage students in home or in school. In every learning institute adults should have different strategies on home to cope up with mental health.

In article we read it states here that “It should be understood by parents that professional success does not guarantee success in life.