Academic Performance Under Pressure: A Gender-Based Study of Stress Among Young Adults

Abstract

Stress becomes an integral part of human life. Anything that creates a challenge or a threat to our comfort is a stress. All kind of stress is not considered to be bad because it helps people to perform well. In academics, stress is unavoidable among students, and it influences students’ performance in all academic activities. Academic stress plays a major role in determining the mental health of students. The current study is conducted to evaluate the impact of stress and gender’s effect on students’ academic achievement in adolescence. Most notably, adolescent girls experienced the highest levels of stress than males. Correlation Analysis done to determine the results. This study also investigates the relationship between stress and academic achievement. There is a positive result for the above two objectives after a statistical method was used. There was a significant relation between stress and academic achievement. Most sources of stress were from student’s academic.