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RELATIONSHIP AMONG ACADEMIC STRESS, MOTIVATION AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF NCE STUDENTS OF COLLEGE OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

RELATIONSHIP AMONG ACADEMIC STRESS, MOTIVATION AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF NCE STUDENTS OF COLLEGE OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

Chapter One

Introduction

1.1 Background to the Study 

Over the past few decades, there has been significant investigation on the issues of stress and management of stress. In addition, college students have been shown to possess a unique set of stressors which can affect their daily experiences. Stress has been defined as the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other type of demands placed on them (Campbell, 2006). Thus, Stress consists of any event in which environmental demands, internal demands or both tax or exceed the adaptive resources of the individual (Lazarus & Folkman 1986). In other words, stress arises when there are burden on the person which exceed his available assets. Stress occurs when an individual is confronted by a situation that he perceive as overwhelming and cannot cope with. Academic Stress is the pressure and anxiety that come from schooling and education. As a matter of fact, college students in their peculiar endeavours are exposed to various kinds of stressors including academic and psychological stress which could militate against their active participation in school activities, and this may block the possibilities of realizing their educational goals. It is considered to be a part of students‘ life and can impact the students coping strategies in accordance with the demands of academic life. This is so because academic work is always accomplished with stressful activities. Thus, tertiary institution students are very vulnerable to experience stress, which may be related to many educational outcomes. Lazarus and Folkman (2007) stated that person's response towards stress depends on whether an event is appraised as a challenge or a threat. It is a necessary and inescapable concomitant of daily living-necessary because without some stress we would be listless and apathetic creatures. Erkutlu and Chafra (2006) for instance opines that, when these events take place, an individual may become disorganized, disoriented and therefore less able to cope with, thus may result in stress related problems. The pressure to perform well in the examination or test and time allocated might make academic environment very stressful. However, it is pertinent to note that if stressed students cannot effectively learn and consequently perform poorly in their academics, it would be very difficult to realize the Federal Government‘s objectives on Tertiary Education. The incidence of stress especially among College of Education students has increased dramatically in recent years. There is often a lot of pressure that comes along with pursuing NCE Certificate and one's education. There is studying, assignment, tests, labs, reading, and quizzes. Teachers expect work to be completed on time. There is the stress of doing all of the work, balancing the time and finding time for extra-curricular activities. There are several explanations for increased stress levels in college students. First, students have to make significant adjustments to college life. Second, because of the pressure of studies, there is strain placed on interpersonal relationships. Third, housing arrangements and changes in lifestyle contribute to stress experienced by college students. In addition, students in college experience stress related to academic requirements, support systems, and ineffective coping skills. Whereas these factors have been found to be responsible for stress, it is worth noting that in order to minimize the stress among students, the College administrators must develop appropriate strategies that will enable them to detect in advance the symptoms and causes of the stress. According to Yumba (2009), possible sources of stress that can be faced in academic situations could be viewed in four areas: by relating with others, personal factors, academic factors, and environmental factors. This is important because authentic engagement may lead to higher academic achievement throughout student life (Zyngier, 2008).Satisfactory school learning and academic achievement are unlikely to take place in absence of sufficient motivation to learn. Psychologists have noted that motivation should be taken into account in education because of its effective relationship with new learning, abilities, strategies and behaviors. By motivation people are stimulated to successfully complete an assignment, achieve a goal or a degree of qualification in their professions. Accordingly motivation defines the reasons behind people‘s behavior and determines why they behave in a particular way. Motivated behaviors are energetic, oriented and permanent (Omidiyan, 2006). Psychological experts have divided motivation into two major groups of intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. While the individual influenced by the extrinsic motivation will independently undertake a specific activity in order to achieve a goal, the intrinsic motivation provides the sufficient incentive for doing a task (Mohamadi, 2006).Intrinsic motivation, occurs when the activity is done out of the free choice of the individual (Ryan & Deci 2000). Intrinsically motivated students perform activities simply for the enjoyment and satisfaction that comes from completing the activity. These students engage in behaviors such as working for a sustained period of time, taking more risks, and working out creative solutions to problems. Extrinsic motivation is a construct that is relevant whenever an activity is done in order to attain some reward.Extrinsically motivated behaviors‘ are those where the controlling mechanism is easily seen (Ryan & Deci (2000), An extrinsic orientation toward learning is characterized by a concern with external reasons for working, such as the judgment of others regarding one‘s performance, grades, or some anticipated reward.


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