Strategies Students Employ to Overcome Anxiety and Stress

Strategies Students Employ to Overcome Anxiety and Stress
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Strategies Students Employ to Overcome Anxiety and Stress
In the contemporary world, students are the most affected victims of anxiety and stress. As much as they seem to have fewer responsibilities, they are faced with difficult situations in trying to put their lives in order and build their own better future. The primary triggers of stress to students include social interactions, academic, and daily life. Therefore, understanding strategies students use to overcome anxiety and stress is imperative to understand the causes of anxiety and stress. The paper will therefore discuss the strategies students employ to overcome anxiety and stress.
Students should have a strategic outlook that is meant to enable them to deal with academic strain. It helps them cope with the day-to-day challenges they experience as they help better their grades. Failure to have a way out of dealing with the challenges leads them to anxiety, stress, and even depression. In social life, peer pressure is a significant cause of anxiety among students. Students tend to emulate the lifestyle of their peers or what they come across on social media.
Students occasionally engage in romantic relationships making it difficult for them to balance their academic work and social life, leading to poor performance in school. In most cases, these do not work well for them, making them feel inadequate, resulting in frustrations and stress. The strategies discussed in this paper are meant to freshen their minds and ease the academic burden due to all the pressure they have for better performance.
Music as a distractor to anxiety and stress
Situmorang (2021) notes that relaxing music assists most students, coupled with stress and jitters. Music plays a vital role in enabling the student to relax. It is, therefore, possible for them to concentrate while studying and retain a lot. Various researchers note that music can stimulate the mind as it raises one’s mood and excites them, even though Lilley et al. (2014) notes that music could negatively affect the students. They note that music is a distractor in a learnin...