Stress
Abstract
Stress is a human condition which involves both mental and physical pressure on a particular person going through a problem. A problem can either emanate from his or her environment or their general social life which, as a result, impact to so many devastating diseases. Stress is associated with age specifically the young age is considered to be the most affected period in one’s life. At this particular stage, youth go through a lot of challenges related to their changes in their lives developmental growth. They are writhing in the yoke of the societal expectation where they are supposed to be the academicians and the elites in their respective societies thus in the process of striving to live to the expectations and the desire of the society, they come across a myriad of challenges. It worth noting therefore that, a full understanding of the source of their stresses and how they can amicably iron out is of much significance. According to the research, it is clear that most of the stresses among the youth are from their academic test and performance, relationship related problems, peer pressure and their career expectations. All these problems, therefore, can profoundly lead to unprecedented physical, social, behavioural and the psychological problem. The fundamental purpose of this study is to find how the major source of stress among the young stars and in turn find and suggest the candid solutions that can be emphasized to mitigate them. Such mitigative measures are like making sure youth are well enlightened on the effects of peer pressures and some adolescence related problem among others.
Nature of stress and its management
The condition that elicits a stressful condition is referred to as an agent of stress. It encompasses and transcends to so many spheres. Beginning from academic test and progress, any kind of physical worries and peer pressure related problems are the most probable stressors among the youths in schools. The following are an explanation about various natures of stress:
Academic related stress
It is always logical that the worry on academic progress and their future can haphazardly cause stress. Some of the protocol symptoms of such stress are high level of anxiety, drastic change in appetite and poor relationship among the youths. According to the research, most of the youths are accustomed to poor reading and study habit specifically studying hard in the 11th hour of the commencement of exams. Coupled with exam phobia conceive to chronic stress among the students.
Relationships
This is another fundamental aspect agent of stress. Intriguingly, every human being is always curious to have several friends around them. However, at times finding a close and reliable friend is a problem. Similarly, having a bad company in the name of friends also creates a stressful situation. Youth, therefore, find it hard in copying up with such perplexing scenarios hence causing stress.
Career
Prestigious jobs are a fervent dream to any young star. Critically contemplating future career causes a chronic disease among the youths. This is attributed to the societal expectations of future career youth. These young stars, therefore, face it hard in trying to maintain their various live styles and standards to realize their potential as far as their future career is a concern.
Finance
Most of the youths are crippled financially since most of them are jobless or their kinds of remuneration are meagre to measure up with their financial needs. Furthermore, most of the students predominantly fear that they might not get a reliable job in their future, hence causing stress.
Time management
Poor time management poses panic and stress among the students. Balancing their daily chores and academic time is also a great challenge. The process of harmonizing these two conflicting entities is a disgrace and stressful.
Treatment intervention
The economic, political and social development of any nation barely lies on the young stars since they are monumental in terms of future of any country. Therefore, it is propitious to identify the cause and the immense consequences of stress on the young stars and by extension the society at large. The unbearable impacts of stress on youth create unnecessary stumbling block at the individual and the societal level. Stress imposes a great challenge in achieving discernable and quality life by youths. To mitigate the stress among the young stars, the following are some of the suggested treatment interventions:
Formation of healthy relationships
A healthy relationship is associated with a stress-free life. Youths should priorities the healthy relationship in terms of c hosing both close friends and the acquaintance and this can be done through a wide selection of friends in terms of their academic performance and the general behavior. Also, they are supposed to establish a mutual and understanding relationship among themselves. Such kind of relationship zealously boosts personal morale hence mitigating the stress.
Relevancy of regular workshops
Any informative and transformative workshops deter and beat the stress among the youths. In these workshops, enlightening of the young stars in terms of the importance and relevancy in society positively inspire them to remain focused and live healthily. Furthermore, indulging them with a role model motivational talks greatly play a crucial role in helping them to realize their inherent potentialities.
Adolescence appropriate diet
What you eat indeed is what you become. Youth that are in most cases desperately struggled to cope up with the challenges associated with adolescence ought to be enlightened on the appropriate diet. The adolescence is a developmental stage associated with several psychological, physical and emotional changes. Giving them appropriate ideas on how to maintain and overcome them relieve the young stars of their stress.
Maintenance of communication with their parents and guardians
It is always believed that parents and guardians play a critical role in both the psychological and physical development of any youth. The youth, in the quest to relieving stress, ought to frankly share their intuitive and introspective afflictions. Parents and the guardians will counsel them on the ultimate measures of relieving stress. According to the research, every young star is imitative and inquisitive thus parents help them to demystify the fallacies of their curious nature as far as their developmental stages are a concern.
Competency development among the youths
Lack of competency in terms of their academic, social and life skills lowers the tendency of self-esteem. Building competency by making a comprehensive and consultative move through the interaction with friends and teachers, greatly boost self-esteem. By extension, this wise decision will drastically reduce the anxieties and the exams related to phobias.
Appropriate time management
Time is always associated with triumphant success. Youth is supposed to be imparted with appropriate time management skills. These skills move hand in hand with a high level of self-discipline in terms of time management. Youth, therefore, should learn to adequately plan and manage their time well. This will not only reduce stress but also increases the chances of realizing future goals.
Involvement in various activities
Involving in any engaging activity apart from classwork or any other routine job helps in reducing boredoms and stress. Some of these activities are football, music, drama and watching movies are both physically and emotionally involving. Engaging in these activities and other posits a relevant avenue in mitigating the classwork related stress.
Optimism
Positive thinking towards sets personal goals is a tremendous gear towards the achievement and the realization of prosperous future. Youths should strive to remain positive and focus on their set goals. Upon the realization of these goals helps relieve stress-related challenges. Researchers claim that self-motivation and self-esteem are the fundamental aspects of achieving success. Besides, engaging in an appropriate peer group who are determined in achieving their personal goals will contagiously boost one’s morale. As it is said good company maintain morale and bad company ruins the prosperous future of an individual.
Relaxation techniques
Exercise
Exercise is believed to be one of the most critical and paramount things in combating stress. Albeit, it seems tiresome but subjecting the body into physical exercises significantly relieve emotional and mental stress. Doing physical exercise regularly tremendously improve body fitness and hormonal balance. It also improves the sleep quality which in most cases is afflicted by physical and emotional stress. Finally, exercise boosts one’s confidence and competence in terms of their daily endeavours hence improving the general wellbeing of an individual.
Taking deep breathe
Taking about five to ten-minute break in breathing in deeply profoundly counter the challenges of stress by lowing blood pressure and moderating the heartbeat rate. Psychologist articulates that the moderated heartbeat and appropriate blood circulation enhance ventilation effect in the body.
Spending time with friends and families
A socially and emotionally supportive friends and family helps an individual to manoeuvre through the stressful moments. Indulgence in the friends networking elicits the sense of belongingness and self-esteem which in turns harmonize tough moments. According to the research, spending time with family and children helps the body to release some hormones like oxytocin for women which acts as a stress reliever. Furthermore, psychologist claims that an individual with fewer friends and social connections is likely to go through difficult moments of depression.
Listening to comforting music
Aristotle in this research claims that music contains a therapeutic aspect that makes one move into sublimity hence relaxing effect on the body. This, in turn, elicits the relaxation response which helps in lowering blood pressure and induce hormonal balance effect.
Learn to meditate
This is a process of contemplating and figuring out an experience which affects the current situation. During meditation, an individual focuses their attention on the thoughts and experience that may cause stress. Meditating on these jumbling thoughts helps an individual to instinctively instil peace of mind and the calmness. It is also believed that the process of meditation helps an individual to visualize and reorganize their psychological and emotional orientation. This will in turn help to improve the general wellbeing and alleviate stress.
Seeking counselling
At some point, stressors may weigh heavily on the one’s ability and the willingness in copying up with self-development measures. Resorting to an appropriate reinforcement which can be in a therapy or counselling form relieves stress. Counselling, by extension, can be a good idea when one is overwhelmingly trapped in a stressing situation. Engaging with professional counsellors helps to provide alternative sources of solutions and appropriate copying up techniques. Therapy, on the other hand, facilitate in mitigating the worrying problem like excessively low self-esteem in facing life challenges and undertaking daily routine responsibilities.
Take a yoga class
Yoga is the most common method of relieving stress and preferably practised across all the categories of age. Although, yoga practice may vary according to various groups of people they share a common bottom line in terms of stress-relieving. Yoga essentially increases body and moderate the rate of breath. Research has shown that this particular practice does not only enhance favourable moods but also act as appropriate and anti-depressant. Generally, yoga practice relieves stress and any unprecedented anxiety. The researchers claim that yoga practice tremendously lower the cortisol levels and blood pressure hence reducing stress.
Efficacy of stress management
Stress management intervention and measures have been extensively used in various studies in a quite different way. Basing on the above-mentioned interventions about stress management, different outcomes have been highlighted although this review has not comparatively differentiated various stated methods of stress management, it is clear that most of this copying skills or rather relaxation skills among other interventions are good options in relieving stress. These interventions are feasible effective and simple in their implementations and implications. Putting into considerations the various diverse culture and impeccable socioeconomic status of different young star groups. These interventions are deemed effective because of auspicious understanding of the characteristics of this young star group through an appropriate and comprehensive survey on their common problem. Furthermore, the possible and detailed explanation of the above-mentioned interventions makes them effective in the sense that they accommodate the general strategies of stress management and their empirical evaluation in terms of their effectiveness.
Since most of the underlying factors like biological, emotional and psychological are the most engineering factors of stress at any given context, these maladaptive skills such as taking exercise, taking a yoga class and listening to the soothing music are known to be stress relievers among the young stars. Finally, the interventions are comprehensive with various dimensions which accommodate all the age groups regardless of their educational levels.
Summary and conclusion
Stress is one of the common problems in contemporary life that affect the psychological, emotional, social and general performance of a student in the society at large. It is clear therefore that an individual cannot face life without experiencing its challenges. Consequently, it is prudent to train an individual on prerequisite strategies on how to manage a stressful scenario to get better in terms of the performance and the general wellbeing. Through identification of the factors related to the various highlighted stressors and appropriate management strategies youth, therefore, can have insight knowledge in mitigating the magnitude and the intensity of both academic and general life stress-related problems. From the results identified it is evident that most of the youths are stressed beyond words, some of the probable symptoms reduced as results of stress are poor appetite, loss of sleep and anxiety among other are signs of highly elevated stress. The major sources of stress among the youths are indeed the relationship, financial constraints, career expectations and the general psychological challenges. To alleviate all these stated problems therefore, youths and the society at large must maintain an appropriate social network with friends and engage in formative counselling processes.
Relevance and implication of social work