Increased stress from schoolwork and career choice among students in their final year of high school

Abstract

The stress experienced by students in their final year of high school is suffocating due to the overload of school assignments, lessons, and exams. This causes students to generate daily stress, which acts as an impediment to making an appropriate decision regarding a university career. The main objective is to analyze the increase in stress and the process of choosing a university major among twelfth-grade students at “Colegio Militar N.º4 Abdón Calderón, “ through the collection and analysis of relevant information, to understand how these factors influence their well-being and decision-making regarding their professional future. Likewise, it seeks to analyze the consequences generated by stress and psychological issues within the student environment and university choices. The methodology employed a mixed-methods approach, collecting information from scientific articles and applying a quantitative survey to 77 twelfth-grade students. The results indicated that students show an increase in daily stress caused by the institution’s academic schedule, which negatively affects academic performance and the decision.making process for a university career. In conclusion, the increase in stress is detrimental to academic development as it affects the psychological, physical, and mental state, leading to lower student performance; this was analyzed to seek a solution to minimize the increase of stress in students.