ACADEMIC STRESS AND COPING STRATEGIES AMONG STUDENTS OF
JUAN F. TRIVIÑO MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
Balcena, Mico B.
Cadag, Ashley H.
Carillo, Maricar V.
Dumaguin, John Paul G.
Mirras, Angelica E.
March 2019
Abstract
This study investigated the academic stress and coping strategies among students
of Juan F. Triviño Memorial Highschool. The study comprises of 60 randomly picked
students-respondents from all grade levels. This study employed quantitative research
method specifically descriptive correlational research design. This study determined the
academic stress and coping strategies of students and the significant relationship
between the two variables. To address the problems, the researchers used two
standardized tests and used to determine the stressors that causes academic stress
and the coping strategies of students. Thus, it was found by the present study that the
majority of the respondents which is 27(45%) out of 60 students are with sometimes
stressful level of academic stress. Moreover, the result shows that noisy classrooms
(7.68) tends to cause academic stress on students. It was also found that students tend
to have self-comfort (8.5) as the top coping strategy. Additionally, results revealed that
majority of the respondents (63.33%) used problem-focused strategy in dealing with
academic stress. The relationship between academic stress and coping strategies was
significantly found at r=0.751 * p=0.042 indicating that there is a high significant
relationship between the academic stress and coping strategies of the studentrespondents.