Stress and the College Student
College Students & Stress
- Think about your undergraduate experience…
- What would you list as top 3 negative influences on your academic performance?
The Younger Adult College Student
- Common Stressors:
- Lifestyle changes
- Grades
- Course overload
- Managing finances
- Making friends
- Love and sex stressors
- Social interactions
- Breakups
- Disordered eating
- Not Mentioned
- COVID
- Racial injustices
- Academic inequity
- Immigration related issues
- Politics
- Familial expectations
- Cultural expectations
The Older Adult College Student
- Overlapping Stressors
- Grades
- Course overload
- Social interactions
- Breakups
- Unique Stressors
- Balancing school and career
- Managing family and school responsibilities
- Doubting abilities to reengage in school
Experiences of BIPOC Students
- BIPOC: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
- Problems within the Academic System:
- Perpetuates white westernized norms
- Microaggressions, aggressions, and racism
- Lack of representation
- Recruitment BIPOC students without proper support
- Safety
Interventions
- Life-Situation Interventions
- Make stress management a routine
- Find community
- Perception Interventions
- Question perception and alternative perspectives
- Choose to see what’s helpful along with what’s hurtful
- Smell the roses (literally & figuratively)
- Map out responsibilities
- Emotional Arousal Interventions
- Physiological Arousal Interventions
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