Strategies for Coping with the Stress among Students: Running with the Hare and Hunting with the Hounds | Chapter 9 | Recent Trends in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 2

 The present study proposed to investigate stress happenings associated with working and examining concurrently, and procedures for coping with the stress among graduates in the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), located in the Efutu Municipality of the Central Region of Ghana. The standard saying “running with the coney and hunting accompanying the hounds”, means that charming in two or more irreconcilable roles together is highly intolerable or unrealistic. In modern occasions, obtaining bigger formal education appears to be the key to asserting one’s status or stopping on top of one’s career contest.The study used an explanatory research paradigm and a qualitative record of what happened methodology. Twenty (20) MPhil undergraduates from UEW, including 10 first-year and 10 second-period students, were sampled for the to a certain extent-structured interview guide.  The study persistent that the main cause of students combining their academic and hiring activities was fiscal difficulties. The study also erect that working and examining at the same time can cause stress-related syndromes such as extreme blood pressure, discontent, headaches, back pain, and appetite loss. The study more showed that the undergraduates used assertiveness, common exercise, diet monitoring, and projected absences from work and school to deal with their stress. It is therefore urged to the university’s enjoining centre to educate occupied students on how to correctly manage the academic and work-accompanying stress they experience on daily support. This could be contained in the orientation programmes organised for students when they are recently admitted to the academy.

Author(s) Details:

Prince Kwame Affum,
Guidance and Counselling Centre, University of Energy and Natural Resources, P.O. Box 214, Sunyani, Ghana.

Cecilia Tutu-Danquah,
Department of Education, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG25, Legon, Accra, Ghana.

Eva Atika Bakuri Dinye,
Guidance and Counselling Centre, University of Energy and Natural Resources, P.O. Box 214, Sunyani, Ghana.

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