The Terrible Three

Elevated heart rates, shallow breaths, and sweaty palms are all stress indicators of students. College students’ face the inevitable apprehension that comes from chasing a higher education. Of the countless critical influences that play a role in snowballing tension are: parental acceptance, economical burdens, and trying to be a role model for those that will be ensuing in their footsteps are a portion of the causes.
As students are filling out applications for various colleges and universities, they try to seek out their parents’ acceptance. Parental acceptance is an impact that is engrained in the minds’ of students at an early age. A study that was conducted:
Evaluated whether factors derived from the 4 attachment measures were related to measures of emotional functioning, specifically, measures of confidence in coping with negative mood, awareness of one's own mood regulation strategies, and levels of perceived stress (McCarthy et al. 287).
The aim of the study was to find if parental attachment and acceptance was a factor of stress found in college students. The results were “emotional functioning and levels of perceived stress provide evidence of the role of attachment in the well-being of young adults” (McCarthy et al. 287). This study has shown that due to amount of attachment and yearning to find acceptance with parents can lead to stress for the child. The correlation with the amount of stress an individual pupil has corresponds with the amount of attachment to the parents. The significance of the understanding of this study is to show that there is indeed a relation between the two factors. College students were the primary focus to emphasize that there this an elevated amount of pressure put into the focus of thei...

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...es are felt in the atmosphere around campuses around the nation. Students feel the overwhelming burdens of stress from various different implications on their everyday lives whether it be from parental acceptance, financial burdens, and the idea of being a role model for their siblings.

Works Cited

Joo, So-Hyun, Dorothy Bagwell Durband, and John Grable. "The academic impact of financial stress on college students." Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice 10.3 (2008): 287-305.
McCarthy, Christopher J., Naomi P. Moller, and Rachel T. Fouladi. "Continued attachment to parents: Its relationship to affect regulation and perceived stress among college students." Measurement and evaluation in counseling and development (2001).
Newman, Joan. "College students' relationships with siblings." Journal of youth and adolescence 20.6 (1991): 629-644.