Major Stressors in Teens Lives'
Major Stressors In Teens’ Lives
What is stress actually and how do we determine who is stressed? Most of us describe stress as when everything became too much that we are overloaded and wonder if we can cope with the amount of pressure placed upon us. Stress actually is anything that poses challenge or a threat to our well-being is a stress. While most people took stress as something negative, it can also be a good thing as it gets you going in life – when there are problems which need to be solved as life would be dull, boring and pointless without any stress at all. However, stresses are bad when it undermines both our mental and physical health. In this text, I would like to focus on the major stressors in teens’ lives as we all know the cases of suicide among the teenagers has been rising abruptly for these past few years. These major stressors can be viewed from three aspects: school, family and relationships. Life on this modern era isn’t the same as it was before in the old days where there isn’t much to worry about, where studies weren’t that competitive and where workload wasn’t as much as it is now. Students in this age would have to deal with working parents and studies which keeps expanding its field. According to a health education manager for Palo Alto Medical Federation (PAMF), Becky Beacom, among all the 124 adolescents surveyed to explore what they find most difficult, the highest percentage of mentions was on homework and school which was fifty-five percent. This category includes grades, tests, college and finals week. According to Kerrie Troseth (2009), “Since students spend most of their time at a school, the most stress originates from this category. Teenagers identify academic performances as a top stressor in their lives.”, including "The gifted students stress about obtaining perfect grades, average students stress out about competing with the gifted students, and below average students stress out about just passing.” Hence, the
What is stress actually and how do we determine who is stressed? Most of us describe stress as when everything became too much that we are overloaded and wonder if we can cope with the amount of pressure placed upon us. Stress actually is anything that poses challenge or a threat to our well-being is a stress. While most people took stress as something negative, it can also be a good thing as it gets you going in life – when there are problems which need to be solved as life would be dull, boring and pointless without any stress at all. However, stresses are bad when it undermines both our mental and physical health. In this text, I would like to focus on the major stressors in teens’ lives as we all know the cases of suicide among the teenagers has been rising abruptly for these past few years. These major stressors can be viewed from three aspects: school, family and relationships. Life on this modern era isn’t the same as it was before in the old days where there isn’t much to worry about, where studies weren’t that competitive and where workload wasn’t as much as it is now. Students in this age would have to deal with working parents and studies which keeps expanding its field. According to a health education manager for Palo Alto Medical Federation (PAMF), Becky Beacom, among all the 124 adolescents surveyed to explore what they find most difficult, the highest percentage of mentions was on homework and school which was fifty-five percent. This category includes grades, tests, college and finals week. According to Kerrie Troseth (2009), “Since students spend most of their time at a school, the most stress originates from this category. Teenagers identify academic performances as a top stressor in their lives.”, including "The gifted students stress about obtaining perfect grades, average students stress out about competing with the gifted students, and below average students stress out about just passing.” Hence, the