The Impact of Academic Stress on Students

Abstract

Students are an active social group of young people adapting to the factors of the social environment. Having entered a higher educational institution, students face certain difficulties: integration into the student environment; development of a style of behavior; young people undergo social, psychological, academic adaptation. During the period of study at the university (especially in the first years of study), the personal qualities of an individual change significantly. The educational process is one of the factors of the violation of the psychological and emotional state of health of many first-year students: they have learning difficulties, they do not have a system of work during the semester, they cannot effectively allocate their time. The relevance of the topic is due to the fact that the study of students' mental health is determined by the presence of factors that create stressful situations in the student environment. It is important to study scientific sources on the topic, identify the main causes of educational stress in a group of students, its manifestations, ways to overcome stressful situations before and after the session. The research method is the analysis of scientific literature on this topic, testing, analysis of testing data. The conducted research made it possible to determine the causes, manifestations of educational stress, and ways to relieve stress.