Stress Levels of College Students

Since 25 years ago the emotional health of college freshman has significantly declined according to the survey they take. Involving more than 200,000 incoming full-time students at four-year colleges that took the survey “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2010”, the percentage of the students rating themselves as “below average” in emotional health rose. On the other hand the “above average percent fell from 64 percent in 1985 to 52 percent. With today’s economic factors counselors are seeing more kids in their offices that need help with their loans that’s putting a lot of stress on them, because they are trying to figure out how to pay them off and wondering if they will even have a career after college in order to pay them off. To some extent it is also caused by the pressures some students put on themselves.  The reason why its declining is really unknown but they think that the economy has a lot to do with it. For many students stress starts even before college. They had been overwhelmed by everything they had to do in their senior year of high school and with everyday activities in life; it rose to 29 percent from 27 percent the last year. Men tend to relieve stress better than women because they engage them selves in sports and other activities to relieve it where as women really don't.

Stress that I have encountered was the stress from school. Getting things done on time and making sure it’s turned in. Also, trying to find a job in this small town isn’t as easy as it seems. I’m currently trying to get my driver’s license and that’s building on to it. So ass you can see my typical day would be pretty stressful but I manage to keep it pretty low and under control.