Effectiveness of Approach Coping Strategy and Academic Stress Problems among Male and Female Undergraduate Students at Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, PathumThani Province, Thailand
Abstract
Academic stressors problems are important issues affecting student's learning. Approach coping strategy is effective tool in helping students to cope with their academic stressor's problems. This study was conducted on 300 students (150 males and 150 females) to find information about their academic stressors problems and compare the differences in response in strategy applied by males and females for the effective approach coping strategy to help them to cope with their academic stressor's problems. This study has done at Rajamagala University of Technology Thanyaburi, PathumTani Province, Thailand. This study applied the Approach Coping Strategy which contains 23 statements and the Factors Affecting Academic Stress Scale which contains 50 statements. The samples were randomly selected 300 undergraduate students from eight difference faculties; there were Agricultural Technology, Business Administration, Engineering, Fine and Applied Arts, Home Economics Technology, Liberal Arts, Science and Technology, and Technical Education. This study observed that out of 150 Thai male undergraduate students, 147 (98.00%) students expressed that they have problems in 'writing papers' whereas 135 (90.00%) Thai female students have problem in 'taken exams' (N = 150). The findings of interviews results found that 10 respondents who participated in this study, they practiced by using approach coping strategy when they faced academic stressors problems not before that
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Introduction
Stress was the physical and psychological response of the body to events that have made students feel threatened or upset in some way.1 Stress is a constraining forced that causes to body or mental tension and can be a factor in disease causation. Stress is a disturbed state of an organism due to the numerous demands of life situation that demand more to be adjustment individuals. Stress is a state of an individual that caused by his/her perceived threat from their environment disturbs their academic issues and their well-being. 2
Academic stress associated with academic adjustments problems among undergraduate students that occur at individual and social level. Academic stress namely, commerce management, humanities, and basic sciences. The five dimensions of sources such as personal inadequacy, fear of failure, interpersonal difficulties with lecturers, lecturers-students’ relationship and inadequate study facilities were further analyzed and gender differences were also obtained.
Conclusion
As per the observation of this study, there are practical recommendations are given to the four main actors who are involved with undergraduate students i.e. the government, universities, counselors, parents, and undergraduate students. They are follows:-
Government is set up approach coping strategy on academic stressors problems among Thai undergraduate students, the government should support staffs/lecturers/professors' teachers to understand the role of approach coping strategy and serve undergraduate students approach coping strategy on academic stressors problems (Prau, 2015)11 .
University should consider the quality and quantity of approach coping strategy on academic stressors problems among undergraduate students (Hanna, etall, 2018)12 .
Counsellors should be needed to advocated for and constructed credit-earning courses that aimed to promote approach coping strategy that can be helped students navigate challenging achievementoriented and these tasks may be an important in thwarting the academic stressors problems.
Parental involvement in university students’ academic stressors problems has long been considered a key factor promoting a wide range of desired academic issue outcomes in their child (Pitt atall 2017)13 .
Undergraduate students who have faced with academic stress problems or academic adjustment problems can be used the practices of approach coping strategy to cope with their academic adjustment and stress problems (Furman etall 2018)14 .