Time Management
I read the article “College students' academic stress and its relation to their anxiety, time management, and leisure satisfaction” from the ProQuest Research Library. I will focus this essay on the three main causes of academic stress and the best resolution as described in the article. Stress, anxiety, and defective time management are three interrelated, and often, self-imposed difficulties that many students have wrestled with. The study found that anxiety reduction and time management in combination with leisure activities is an effective approach to decreasing academic stress among college students.
The study showed that the single highest health hindrance to college students' academic performance was academic anxiety. This is a point that I can relate to. Academic anxiety has led to problems in other areas such as my physical and psychological health. One would think that I thrive on the adrenaline rush that arises from barely making a deadline, but one would be wrong.
I consistently practice procrastination in any and all areas of my life. Procrastination is the tendency to repeatedly postpone a certain intended course of action, to the point of failing to accomplish this task within a desired time frame (Milgram, 1991; Senecal, 1995). I have never quite been able to manage the concept of doing what you have to do before doing what you want to do. I have to learn to prioritize by looking at the bigger picture of what I want to accomplish as opposed to the smaller picture of what I want to be doing right now.
Procrastination often leads to paralyzing stress. I have the tendency to amplify the difficulty of a project until my level of nervousness becomes so high that I have anxiety attacks. I then have to be medicated to control these attacks. My medical doctor insisted that I begin seeing a psychologist to avoid future and more dangerous health problems due to self-induced stress. My psychologist is helpful, and she has encouraged me to
The study showed that the single highest health hindrance to college students' academic performance was academic anxiety. This is a point that I can relate to. Academic anxiety has led to problems in other areas such as my physical and psychological health. One would think that I thrive on the adrenaline rush that arises from barely making a deadline, but one would be wrong.
I consistently practice procrastination in any and all areas of my life. Procrastination is the tendency to repeatedly postpone a certain intended course of action, to the point of failing to accomplish this task within a desired time frame (Milgram, 1991; Senecal, 1995). I have never quite been able to manage the concept of doing what you have to do before doing what you want to do. I have to learn to prioritize by looking at the bigger picture of what I want to accomplish as opposed to the smaller picture of what I want to be doing right now.
Procrastination often leads to paralyzing stress. I have the tendency to amplify the difficulty of a project until my level of nervousness becomes so high that I have anxiety attacks. I then have to be medicated to control these attacks. My medical doctor insisted that I begin seeing a psychologist to avoid future and more dangerous health problems due to self-induced stress. My psychologist is helpful, and she has encouraged me to