Psychological Distress among College Immigrants Students Luz Moreno Miami Dade College/Interamerican Campus Psychological Distress among College Immigrants Students Immigrants in a new society find many acculturation difficulties in their daily lives including their immigration status, language barrier and even discrimination. Immigrants may be faced with special problems, not only in their relationships with the host society, but with their group of peers. Immigrant students, for example, may have problems enrolling in courses and may face recurring problems of time pressure or problems maintaining relationships with friends. These types of daily difficulties experienced by students, both family and non-family related, have been previously associated with psychological distress (Kohn et al., 1990; Kohn, Lafreniere, & Gurevich, 1991). A substantial number of immigrants attend colleges and universities in United States.
There are a number of different reasons why college athletes become stressed and can feel a since of helplessness. According to study titled Comparing Sources of Stress in College Student Athletes and Non-Athletes, “In fact, 95% of male athletes and 86% of female athletes were stressed by factors such as: tests and examinations, preparing papers for class, missing classes because of travel, and making up missed assignments”(Wilson, 2005). These factors play a great role into the mental and physical health of a student
Cause and Effect: Stress Stress is basically defined as under too much pressure. Some stressed people feel annoyed at everyone or they feel like giving up on everything. Many community college students stress over so many things. There are so many causes of the stress. The main three causes of the stress are the transportations, financial problems, and classes.
Their inability to comprehend can possibly lead to stress and frustration thus developing behavioural issues. Consequently, the fate of those students, as well as their peers, is jeopardized as a result of their scholastic incompetence. This practice has become an issue that threatens to strip America of its high rank. All the criteria taught in each grade is essential for future references. According to the Board of Education, 86% of the elements students learn in previous grades are used as a basis that is necessary in order to excel in further years.
Lac is it good or the bad students. Many students would agree that it is bad for the student because it teaches them that when they grow up they should be unfair and unreasonable. They will do the same thing to other teens once they are adults, and adults and teens will forever be unhappy with each other. This would also make students lack intelligence because all that time they would be in LAC they could be learning their subject. It will also cause stress for the students because they will have a hard time learning there subject.
The desire to want to be socially accepted and popular for some can also take on some form of stress for students. This does not exactly pertain to students of higher learning who take on different forms of stress in their collegiate lifetime. Higher learning students, those who have surpassed years of credible college education, face more of the basic form of academic stress. A heavy workload of examinations, homework assignments, and constant studying makes out for these students to be frazzled; with or without a job. A student under this category also deal with the pressure of figuring out what they will do with their lives
Students also face hard decisions such as :choosing a college, disappointing friends, In the fear of disappointing their parents. Other stress factors include the following: Peer pressure drugs, alcohol, and electronics. Many students often feel the drive fulfilling obligations to friends and family members ;even if they do not benefit themselves. Another cause of students struggling in school, is low self-esteem. Low self-esteem tends to lesson students desire to work, their ability to focus, and their willingness to take risks.
During the film students report experiences of being abused, seeing their friends die from gang violence, circumstances of poverty and family eviction, all of which present dire challenges to the students within school. Seeing dismal issues unfold like this in front of your eyes can sometimes be challenging making it increasingly difficult to focus on school, let alone focusing on the grand scheme of life such as acquiring career goals or setting personal goals that can be achieved for self-esteem purposes and other self-development goals. Academically, the characters in the film are challenged because of the fact that when they go home at night they do not have a safe and secure place to study and do homework. There is also no one to help with schoolwork or any type of current technology aid such as a computer or laptop. Instead they face and are challenged by gang membership, hunger, family domestic and financial issues.
Erik Aguirre Humanities 31 Mr. Walzer Over the past several years, students have been confronting an extended amount of barriers stopping them from success in institutions of higher education. There is a wide range of obstacles that prevent student success, but the top two obstacles to success are made up by barriers of insufficient funding and insufficient advice and guidance from the colleges. Additionally, obstacles that are more insubstantial include lack of time management, family responsibilities, balancing school with work and last but not least poor work-habits. Receiving financial assistance to help pay out the costs of higher education is a main concern that many students say they seek in order to facilitate success in college. Concerns about having to pay tuition costs and covering other costs like books, supplies, transportation, and etc… become really stressing to students who are not eligible or whom received very little aid.
Nora, a freshmen currently attending a college in New York, had anxiety when college-applications came out. As she began needing to fill out more, she started fearing getting questions teachers asked wrong and feeling inferior to her peers (Clinic Staff). Nora is one of many students who face anxiety due to school. According to data by the National Institute of Mental Health, “about 30 percent of girls and 20 percent of boys--totaling 6.3 million teens--have had an anxiety disorder,” (Clinic Staff). A large amount of teen students have had anxiety, a side-effect from stress and mental disorders, and anxiety derives from high expectations schools create.