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An analysis on a public university final year engineering students’ stress levels

Stress is one of the serious issues that affect university students’ life and has been identified to cause academic decline, poor relationships with peers and family members and overall dissatisfaction with life. As for final year university students, academic workloads, expectations from societies...

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Main Authors: Haslinda, Hashim, Anita, Abdul Rani, Nor Yazi, Khamis, Azwin Arif, Abdul Rahim, Zuraina, Ali, Zubair, Khalil, Adam Shariff Adli, Aminuddin, Nor Akmar, Nordin
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Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/32329/1/View%20of%20AN%20ANALYSIS%20ON%20A%20PUBLIC%20UNIVERSITY%20FINAL%20YEAR%20ENGINEERING%20STUDENTS%E2%80%99%20STRESS%20LEVELS.pdf
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spelling my.ump.umpir.323292023-01-30T03:43:21Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/32329/ An analysis on a public university final year engineering students’ stress levels Haslinda, Hashim Anita, Abdul Rani Nor Yazi, Khamis Azwin Arif, Abdul Rahim Zuraina, Ali Zubair, Khalil Adam Shariff Adli, Aminuddin Nor Akmar, Nordin LB2300 Higher Education Stress is one of the serious issues that affect university students’ life and has been identified to cause academic decline, poor relationships with peers and family members and overall dissatisfaction with life. As for final year university students, academic workloads, expectations from societies and future career uncertainties are some of the common factors that create stress. Therefore, this case study aims to investigate the stress experienced by the final year engineering students at a public university. The main objectives are to identify factors that cause stress and its effects on the students. A five-dimension set of questionnaires i.e. Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Motivation, Environment, and Workload was distributed to 260 final year students of an engineering faculty before they participated in a Stress Management Awareness Program. The program which was part of the Final Year Project (FYP), exposed the students with stress management strategies. Later, interviews were conducted to explore the extent of stress effects on the students’ academic success, and lifestyle in general, and the effect of the workshop. The mean scores of the dimensions and its items were analysed descriptively and findings from the interviews were compared after the students had undergone the workshop. The quantitative results indicated a moderate level of stress among the students with some significance in ‘Environment’ and ‘Workloads’ dimensions. Qualitatively, the workshop had made the students aware of their stress experiences, and educated them with various stress management strategies. Interestingly, there were similar continuous patterns of stress experiences from 33 volunteered interviewees, which have brought to light the actual circumstances of students’ stress. Evidently, these results call for a context-driven stress management module that can provide the students with resourceful selfregulated strategies in coping with the demanding life as final year engineering students. Universiti Malaysia Pahang 2021 Article PeerReviewed pdf en cc_by_4 http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/32329/1/View%20of%20AN%20ANALYSIS%20ON%20A%20PUBLIC%20UNIVERSITY%20FINAL%20YEAR%20ENGINEERING%20STUDENTS%E2%80%99%20STRESS%20LEVELS.pdf Haslinda, Hashim and Anita, Abdul Rani and Nor Yazi, Khamis and Azwin Arif, Abdul Rahim and Zuraina, Ali and Zubair, Khalil and Adam Shariff Adli, Aminuddin and Nor Akmar, Nordin (2021) An analysis on a public university final year engineering students’ stress levels. International Journal of Humanities Technology and Civilization (IJHTC), 1 (12). pp. 7-14. ISSN 2289-7216 (Print); 2600-8815 (Online) https://journal.ump.edu.my/ijhtc/article/view/6974
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Haslinda, Hashim
Anita, Abdul Rani
Nor Yazi, Khamis
Azwin Arif, Abdul Rahim
Zuraina, Ali
Zubair, Khalil
Adam Shariff Adli, Aminuddin
Nor Akmar, Nordin
An analysis on a public university final year engineering students’ stress levels
description Stress is one of the serious issues that affect university students’ life and has been identified to cause academic decline, poor relationships with peers and family members and overall dissatisfaction with life. As for final year university students, academic workloads, expectations from societies and future career uncertainties are some of the common factors that create stress. Therefore, this case study aims to investigate the stress experienced by the final year engineering students at a public university. The main objectives are to identify factors that cause stress and its effects on the students. A five-dimension set of questionnaires i.e. Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Motivation, Environment, and Workload was distributed to 260 final year students of an engineering faculty before they participated in a Stress Management Awareness Program. The program which was part of the Final Year Project (FYP), exposed the students with stress management strategies. Later, interviews were conducted to explore the extent of stress effects on the students’ academic success, and lifestyle in general, and the effect of the workshop. The mean scores of the dimensions and its items were analysed descriptively and findings from the interviews were compared after the students had undergone the workshop. The quantitative results indicated a moderate level of stress among the students with some significance in ‘Environment’ and ‘Workloads’ dimensions. Qualitatively, the workshop had made the students aware of their stress experiences, and educated them with various stress management strategies. Interestingly, there were similar continuous patterns of stress experiences from 33 volunteered interviewees, which have brought to light the actual circumstances of students’ stress. Evidently, these results call for a context-driven stress management module that can provide the students with resourceful selfregulated strategies in coping with the demanding life as final year engineering students.
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author Haslinda, Hashim
Anita, Abdul Rani
Nor Yazi, Khamis
Azwin Arif, Abdul Rahim
Zuraina, Ali
Zubair, Khalil
Adam Shariff Adli, Aminuddin
Nor Akmar, Nordin
author_facet Haslinda, Hashim
Anita, Abdul Rani
Nor Yazi, Khamis
Azwin Arif, Abdul Rahim
Zuraina, Ali
Zubair, Khalil
Adam Shariff Adli, Aminuddin
Nor Akmar, Nordin
author_sort Haslinda, Hashim
title An analysis on a public university final year engineering students’ stress levels
title_short An analysis on a public university final year engineering students’ stress levels
title_full An analysis on a public university final year engineering students’ stress levels
title_fullStr An analysis on a public university final year engineering students’ stress levels
title_full_unstemmed An analysis on a public university final year engineering students’ stress levels
title_sort analysis on a public university final year engineering students’ stress levels
publisher Universiti Malaysia Pahang
publishDate 2021
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/32329/1/View%20of%20AN%20ANALYSIS%20ON%20A%20PUBLIC%20UNIVERSITY%20FINAL%20YEAR%20ENGINEERING%20STUDENTS%E2%80%99%20STRESS%20LEVELS.pdf
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/32329/
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