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R. Antonios/ How is Academic Overload linked to Stress Levels Among University students?

How is Academic Overload linked to Stress Levels Among

University Students?

 Rebecca Melhem Antonios* ²

². Lebanese American University, School of Arts and Sciences

ARTICLE INFO  AB STR ACT

Keywords: Backgr ound:   This study sought to examine the effect that academic overload has on
stress levels among university students. The specific objectives include (i)
understanding the sources of relationship factors to stress, (ii) to examine the sources
Academic overload of academic based factors to stress, (i ii) to explore the environmental factors to stress,
and (iv) to recommend the best approaches that the school could assist the stressed
Stress levels students.
 Methods:  The study adopted the use of quantitative approach to collect data through
Perceived stress scale questionnaires. The study distributed a total of 206 questionnaires and received 142
correctly filled questionnaires. The study adopted the use of SPSS to analyze
quantitative statistics. All the data was analyzed and presented using frequency tables
and graphs. More importantly, the study used descriptive statistics to find measures
of central tendencies.
Results:  The findings reveal that relationship factors that makes a majority of students
experience stress included working with new people, conflict with boyfriends or
girlfriends. Second, the findings showed that a majority of students developed strategy
from academic factor such as getting lower grades, spending more hours studying,
class workload through assignments, and several groups works. While the
environmental factors were said to be quitting jobs or worrying about lack of
employment in the future, unrealistic Expectations, and being placed in unfamiliar
situations.
Conclusion:  The study recommends that the dean of students designs programs that
assist all students through counselling sessions to avoid the problem from escalating
and affecting most students. 

© 2018, Antonios. LAU. All rights reserved.  

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INTRODUCTION
This research studies “Stress from the academic overload
 perspective.” Academic stress results from academic overload
has an impact on the majority of students’  academic
 performance, social life and health (Murff, 2017). The objective
of this study is to identify to what extent academic overload
affects students' life. The research conducted can be helpful for
 both students and professors to understand how academic
overload is linked to stress. It disrupts academic performance
and the student’s social life and creates numerous mental health
 problems such as depression as well as sleeping disorders.
Furthermore, the study explores various coping methods for
stress from academic overload. Psychological distress among
university students has become a subject of great concern, due
to the various psychological problems which accompany
academic overload. Medical students have numerous stressors
such as balancing their hospital and teaching internships which
they partake in during their studies at university whereas
education students have less stressors (Yumba, 2008). Such
stress can make them more prone to psychological problems
since they end up being stressed by their university material as
well as their internship responsibilities (Murff, 2017). Students
tend to cope with the academic overload by compromising their
health as well as their performance in university.
* Corresponding author, Lebanese American University,
Lebanon. Tel.:76087414.
Email: Rebeccaantonios98@gmail.com (R. Melhem
Antonios)
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Mental health is a growing concern which must be
addressed. With a growing demand for fresh medical and
education graduates, as well as the various scientific expansions
and discoveries, students are being overloaded with information
in various courses and various fields (Bateman, 1981).
Overloading students with coursework and responsibilities can
 be compared with the case of overworking employees (Totawar
& Prasad, 2016). Aside from the fact that numerous studies have
found that overworking employees usually ended up making
employees less productive, it created numerous mental health
 problems which affected the social life of the employees
(Bateman, 1981). Students can also be less productive when
overworked and tend to develop numerous maladaptive
 psychological symptoms which take a toll on the students' life
(Bedewy & Gabriel, 2015). The way which academic overload
can affect students depends on numerous factors such as gender,
age, and education. Students have mounting pressure which can
come from many sources which can compile to the problem of
 being academically overloaded, which differs from case to case.
In addition, some students must cope with financial problems
while studying and take a part time or full-time job to cover the
university tuition and living costs (Murff, 2017). Other students
experience pressure from their parents to do well in university
which can also compile to the problem. When students work
hard to maintain their GPA, students tend to exhaust themselves
as most students are studying full time (Totawar & Prasad,
2016). This also tends to increase student’s anxiety levels and
makes them vulnerable to depression and prolonged stress.
The major aim of this study is to understand how
academic overload is linked to stress levels among university
students? The study sought to answer the following questions;
(1) What are the sources of relationship factors to stress? (2)
What are the sources of academic based factors to stress? (3)
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What are the environmental factors to stress? (4) How should the
students be assisted to respond to stress?
METHODS
Subjects
This study targeted students studying at the American
University of Beirut in the education and medical departments.
Students comprised the primary sample to participate in this
study. The study targeted students studying in different
disciplines/departments. The study used a systematic sampling
approach to pick out participants from lectures in a cross-section
study. After picking the first student, the second and consecutive
student will be picked at an interval of three students. The
 process continued until all the students were recruited to get a
sample of 206 students. A total of 142 students completed the
study fully.
 Procedure  academic overload and environmental factors. Academic
The study sought to adopt descriptive research to show
an accurate reaction of students on how academic overload
affects their health, social life, and academic performance.
Saunders, Lewis, and Thornhill (2009) explain that descriptive
research seeks to produce an accurate representation of persons,
events, and situations. The advantage for using descriptive
research is because of the need to use questionnaires to collect
quantitative data. Furthermore, descriptive research will allow
identification of dependent and independent variables in order to
show a show a relationship between different measures.
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 Ethical Consideration
The study was guided by the AUB code of research ethics. The
study considered the privacy of the participants as well as their
freedom to withdraw from the study. Furthermore, the study
obtained consent from all participants before allowing them to
respond to all questions. In addition, all participants received an
informed consent paper approved by the IRB at the Lebanese
American University.
Workload Assessment
The study categorized the units of analysis into
dependent and independent measures or variables. The
dependent measures will consist of student life.(____) The study
measured student life in terms of academic performance, social
life, and mental health(stress). In specific, the study will use 0
for no and 1 for yes as well as administering the Perceived Stress
Scale among all participants to assess their current stress levels.
The independent variables were measured across different
overloads will be measured around procrastination, student
Capacity, language difficulties, examinations, missing Lectures,
lower grades, and frustration due to misunderstanding.
Environmental factors were measured around future
expectations to find jobs, divorce between their parents, living
conditions at the university, and lack of breaks and vacations.
All independent measures were measured on a five-point Likert
scales.
 Data and Statistical Analysis Procedure
Data analysis was conducted through SPSS. The analysis
covered frequencies and measures of central tendencies on
independent variables. Descriptive statistics show the number,
the mean, and standard deviation of Likert scales. Furthermore,
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the study used multinomial regression to show the relationship

 between academic overload and stress.

RESULTS
 Relationship Factors
 Experienced Stress
Approximately 42.25 percent indicated that they their
More than half of the participants indicated that they had
stress was caused by working with new people. The
already experienced some stressful moment in their life while at
lowest number of participants were 13.38 percent and
school. More than 64.79 percent of the sample said yes while
7.75 percent who indicated that their stress was caused
only 22.54 percent indicated that they had not experienced any
 by the parents and being in conflict with their
form of stress in the past one month. Only 12.68 percent of the
roommates respectively.
 participants they did not know whether they had experienced any
form of stress.

Figure 2: Relationship Factors as Sources of Stress  

Figure 1: Ever felt stressful over the last one month 

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