Rea Odyth A.

Bunquin

Overview
The purpose of this integrated paper was to investigate student’s stress, how
students come up with stress, and how the stress affects self and leads into role conflicts.
Moreover, this was utilized in incorporating various students dealing with numerous
difficulties during the implementation of online flexible learning system. Using theories
from different articles concerning topics in Understanding the Self, this examined
important details and information regarding this particular problem. Whereas,
integration of data were being used for the conceptualization and processing suggested
recommendations. Accordingly, these give adequate benefit since this provides action to
encourage students to take their one’s responsibility in addressing their conditions.
Furthermore, conclusions and implications were also discussed and signified.

Problem
Various students are currently dealing on different stressful conditions during the
implementation of online flexible learning system. As for this, there is also a huge
impact and effects on the students where most of them are experiencing role conflicts.
At this time of pandemic, educational institutions was being forced to utilize online
classes whereas, students encounter numerous problems for some reasons. They are
affected especially in learning as they undergo various interruptions as they play one’s
role not just a student but also as a daughter/son.

Analysis
Part 2: Digital Self
Steele, Hall, and Christofferson (2020) emphasized conceptualizing digital stress in
adolescents and young adults towards the development of an empirically based model.
It was highlighted that both correlational and some experimental studies suggest that
social media use specifically can be associated with diminished psychological
functioning in adolescents and young adults. According with their study, their review of
the literature suggests four potentially related components such as availability of stress,
approval anxiety, fear of missing out, and communication overload. This
conceptualization is consistent with recent published frameworks for understanding
digital media’s influence on peer relationships.
As what have visualized with the article indicated, it is very evident some issues
concerning stress. In terms of digital self, it concludes that there are various issues on
different studies whereas the results are consistent. Obviously, within our digital world,
it portrays that it gives a huge impact towards the users. Speaking about the problem of
this study which encompasses student’s stress during the implementation of online
class, it has a connection for the reason that students used to engage themselves in
digitalized field. With this regard, there is a utilization of various advanced technologies
in order to cope up with this flexible learning system.

Reference:
Steele, Hall, and Christofferson (2020). “Conceptualizing Digital Stress in Adolescents
and Young Adults: Towards the Development of an Empirically-Based Model”.
Retrieved from https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2020&q=digital+self+
stress&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%D3twBMTADK4QJ

Recommendation
The following are hereby recommended:
Set proper goals and prioritization. Students should set proper goals in order
to accomplish task at a time. By this means, this will be of great help for those students
who are currently dealing with stress. In terms of addressing role conflicts of every
individual, identifying important thing to prioritize first is a must. In either student or
even daughter/son, you can play your role by managing time well.
Eliminate distractions. Students should minimize the use of any social
networking sites while having online classes. This is also a factor why students get stress
and leads into unfinished tasks and activities. They must focus their interest in doing
their outputs and assignments rather than wasting their valuable time surfing on the
internet endlessly.
Take regular breaks but use it wisely. It is significant if students used to take
break times in order to reduce their stress. Additionally, this helps them to increase
their productivity. The reason why students get stress is because their mind or their
mental resources do not used to relax and take a rest. During break time, they should
also use it wisely by focusing on the important ones.
Ask for help. It is not bad if you yourself used to ask for a help. This is significant
to consider because this may save your time and energy. Moreover, if you have questions
or something to clarify, don’t hesitate to ask someone for you to do your task well and
correctly.

Conclusion
Stress issues during online class are one of the current problems facing by every
student. We recognized areas in which students find it hard to engage in flexible
learning system. With this regard, they also experience role conflicts in different
instances. In that case, there are also different solutions with that problem that we used
to signify such as: set proper goals and prioritization, eliminate distractions, take
regular breaks but use it wisely, and ask for a help.
Concerning this study, this can also be linked with different topics from
understanding the self. Whereas, the topic about “Personality” has been relate under
part 1: The Self from Various Perspective. While on part 2: Unpacking the Self, it
inferred “Digital Self”-wherein it highlighted expressing ourselves on Social Media.
Lastly, in order to address issues regarding stress, we used to connect the topic entitled
“Taking Care of One’s Health” under part 3: Managing the Self. Consequently, these
three (3) topics that were identified definitely construe the particular subject to deal
with.
The recommended solutions will be of great relevance in order to address these
current issues. Hence, it is necessary to focus this particular matter to provide concrete
background and information through connecting topics on the standardized parts of the
module.