Stress Among Undergrads in Malaysia

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In 2012, Ruth Chu-Lien Chao analyzed how college students regarded stress and to investigate whether dysfunctional coping fuels the relationship between stress and well-being of students with various levels of social support. The study involved 459 college students at a prevalent European American state funded college. Respondents were required to rate in light of a 5-point Likert's scale, with higher scores showing more prominent view of life stress and lower scores reflecting lower impressions of stress. The outcomes acquired from the review demonstrated that when college students encounter stress, they require affirmation from others that they are being listened to when they talk. This kind of help is known as social support and is viewed as positive as far as people's well-being. This review additionally showed that not all adapting is helpful and functional. Like each study, this study too has certain impediments. Because this study utilized a correlational research plan, the discoveries don't really show the causal connections of the independent variable on the dependent variable. Aside from that, since students' stress, social support, well-being, and coping were just surveyed with self-reported measures and context were not evaluated, the outcomes can't be summed up to apply to different methods for examination. Likewise, just the general stress of students was evaluated and not particular stressors. In any case, the study additionally obtained propelled information of and mindfulness for social support and coping for college students in two ways. First, the study demonstrated that fulfillment with social support is a cradle and that dysfunctional coping can decay well-being. This study adds to the comprehension of college life by articulating the fueling impact of low social support on stress to deteriorate students' well-being.

Pettit and DeBarr (2011) conducted a research to study the connection between caffeinated drink consumption, stress levels and academic performance among undergraduates. The research comprised of 136 undergraduates enlisted in courses at a substantial southern plains college. 9 out of these students were excluded as they didn't complete the whole survey. Convenience sampling technique was utilized to get participants and they were all no less than 18 years old. Information for this research was acquired through a survey that was intended to get data of demographics, stress levels, academic performance and in addition caffeinated drink consumption. The Perceived Stress Scale was utilized and measured using a 5-point Likert scale. Cumulative grade point average was utilized toward measuring academic performance. As a result, participants with higher levels of stress uncovered having consumed more caffeinated beverages as to participants with lower levels of stress. The study was wrapped up with understanding that caffeinated drink consumption is inversely proportional to academic performance. This demonstrates that participants have a tendency to consume more caffeinated beverages when they confront stressful situations. A few impediments were seen in this research. One of the restrictions included selected statistical strategies. Since this research was an exploratory investigation, statistical inferences were constrained. Aside from that, the research obtained its outcome from a small sample type. Most participants were white females and were freshman. It would be a better research if there was a variety in the kind of participants as the research will have greater validity when contrasted with the current research. Nonetheless, this research has revealed some insight into how perceived stress is a predisposing component for caffeinated drink consumption and this ought to urge health educators to urge undergraduates to react to stress in health upgrading ways.

Oman et al. (2008) proposed that meditation aids in reducing stress and encourages forgiveness among undergraduates. In this study, researchers focused on 2 sorts of meditation based integration programs, an Adaptation of Kabat-Zinn's mindfulness- based stress reduction (MBSR) and an Adaptation of Easwaran's Eight-Point Program. In spite of the fact that the two types of programs are distinctive in points of interest, the skills taught in these two groups hold a few similarities. This study was aimed at understanding the effect of Meditation Management of Stress (MMS) interventions on undergraduates' stress level. Participants of this study comprised of 44 undergraduates who had shown enthusiasm to the research and all were in the range of 18 to 24 years of age. The whole group training was directed in a span of two months with each meeting lasting up to an hour and a half. Perceived stress was measured using a 10-item variant of the Perceived Stress Scale whereas forgiveness was measured using a 6-item sub-scale of the Heartland Forgiveness Scale and its legitimacy is upheld by relationships with other measures of forgiveness. As a result, it is learnt that training undergraduates in integrated meditation programs can diminish perceived stress and there were no noteworthy contrasts between MBSR and EPP as far as MMS training goes. This pattern gives extra support to offering meditation-based programs, like MBSR and EPP to undergraduates. A few restrictions were seen in this research, for example, generalizability. Participant contained for the most part of white first year undergraduate females more than men, so this outcome may not completely apply to men, non-whites, and more seasoned understudies. Besides, the nonappearance of a dynamic control group treatment, to conform for generalized benefits of participating in a group, leave open what particularly represented the observed changes. In any case, this study is depicted as the first to examine the effects of an intervention on forgiveness in college populaces. Participants learn practices for controlling attention for the duration of the day and additionally drawing on attitudinal supports that may impact how they evaluate conceivably distressing circumstances. In the future, researchers ought to investigate the instruments and generalizability of such impacts and how benefits from similar programs can most suitably be made accessible to undergraduate.

Method

The primary research method for this study will be literature review and surveying. Literature review will be used to understand stress as whole whereas surveying will aid in understanding stress within a targeted group. Informed consent forms containing information about procedures, benefits, and risks of participating, voluntary participation as well as contact information of the researcher will be attached together with a self-compiled questionnaire survey. The purpose of the study will also