Blog 12

JOHNSON, VERONICA. "COLLEGE STUDENTS' STRESS UNDER CURRENT ECONOMIC DOWNTURN." College Student Journal 45.3 (2011): 536-43. Print.

The article is about the effects of stress on student and more exclusively the impact the current economic down turn has on students coupled with their already prevalent academic stressors. I could not find any information on the authors on GOOGLE but on the actual article they are stated as being doctors in their respective field which is the field of psychology and special services and they are based out of The University of El Paso Texas. “Economic stress has shadowed the already stressful college life and it adds on economic-induced stressors that require college students to use more coping energy”(541) This quote highlights the fact that economic stressors have an impact of college students and create problems because they have to cope with this stress as well as other stressors in college. “Senior college students face approaching graduation date and soon entry to job market. They are deeply influenced by the economic stress.” The most stressful situation in terms of the economic stressors is in students final year because they are entering this unstable job market and are faced with the facts that they may not be able to pay back th loans they have taken out. “The only exception is that freshmen reported higher economic stress than sophomores did. A possible explanation is that freshmen perceive a higher economic stress partially due to the transition from high school to college, while sophomores may have adjusted to college life and are less sensitive to economic and financial stability.”(540) This quote shows a finding that will have a strong presence in m paper because it deals with the fact that freshman year of college is an extremely stressful time because students have just taken on such a large financial burden accompanied by the fact that they have no acclimated to college yet.