Academic Stress and Its Management Strategies Among University Students

Background Section

The introduction section has established the prevalence and seriousness of academic stress among students in universities. Therefore, this section seeks to provide the background to the problem of academic stress. This section will present the etymological background of the word ‘stress’ as well as provide the state of academic stress in universities. The word ‘stress’ was first used in the in the early 1700s and it is etymologically derived from the Latin word ‘stringere’ which means to draw tight and it was used (Adom et al., 2020b). Next, according to Richards (2009), Charles Darwin in his book On the Origin of Species used the principles of natural stress to describe evolutionary natural selection. Subsequently, the word “stress” was used in the United States during and following World War II when it was realized that the stress of war produced adverse effects and impairments in some soldiers (Richards, 2009).