CAUSES, EFFECTS AND MANAGEMENT OF STRESS AND ANXIETY AMONG AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSTY, ZARIA UNDERGRADUATES

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dc.contributor.authorSORUNKE, ADELINE MOJISOLA (MRS)
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-18T10:59:32Z
dc.date.available2014-02-18T10:59:32Z
dc.date.issued1993-08
dc.descriptionM.ED THESISen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study was designed to find out the causes, effects and management of stress and anxiety among the undergraduate students of A.B.U., Zaria. Sources of stress and anxiety are issues that are intricately related to university life because of its peculiar nature and these may have serious consequences on the lives of undergraduate students. Three faculties have been used as samples in the study. From these faculties 347 and 210 students and academic staff have been used respectively as subjects. Two sets of validated questionnaire were used to gather the data analysed for the study. Four pairs of hypotheses were formulated on the causes, degree of seriousness (the rating of causes, the effects and the coping strategies. The focus of the hypotheses was to identify gender differentials among students and academic staff. The main statistical tool applied for testing the hypotheses was the t-test. It was found out that the students and the academic staff did not differ significantly except on the hypotheses which states that "There will be no significant difference between the male and female students as to the preferred coping strategies when they are under stress and anxiety", It was found that the t-value of -3.00 is greater than the critical value of ± 1.96 at p 0.05 hence the hypothesis was rejected. The results of the, study can be summarised as follows. (i) The students and academic staff of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria could identify the causes of stress and anxiety among the undergraduate students, (ii) They rated the degree of seriousness of the identified causes as either extremely serious or serious, (iii) They agreed that students experience various effects of stress and anxiety, (iv) The preferred coping strategies in the events of stress and anxiety were also identified by the students and academic staff. Based on the findings therefore, the researcher made the following recommendations. jt is recommended that the university should have functional counselling units, at least one in each faculty which should be well Staffed with professional counsellors. Such counselling units should develop appropriate seminar/Workshop materials on the causes, effects and management of stress and anxiety. Such counselling units should also hold regular workshops for and with university officials who usually have the first contact with the students on arrival on the campus. The university counselling units can also develop some counselling written materials on "negative" coping strategies such as Indect coping strategies like smoking, drinking, prostituting and use of drugs to highlight the ineffectiveness of such strategies and such materials should be made available for students' reading during orientation and counselling sessions.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1922
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectCAUSES,en_US
dc.subjectEFFECTS,en_US
dc.subjectMANAGEMENT,en_US
dc.subjectSTRESS,en_US
dc.subjectANXIETY,en_US
dc.subjectAMONG,en_US
dc.subjectAHMADU,en_US
dc.subjectBELLO,en_US
dc.subjectUNIVERSTY,en_US
dc.subjectZARIA,en_US
dc.subjectUNDERGRADUATES,en_US
dc.titleCAUSES, EFFECTS AND MANAGEMENT OF STRESS AND ANXIETY AMONG AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSTY, ZARIA UNDERGRADUATESen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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