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Multi-pronged stress management intervention for high achieving female students
Author
Ko, Hak Chin
Supervisor
Chew, Chelsea Liang Ru
Abstract
Students who cannot cope with the school demands and other stressful events may experience anxiety, mood disorder. If it is not dealt with properly, it may develop into depression. It is important that teenagers suffering from this disorder receive quick and effective treatment.
The purpose of the study is to design a Multi-Pronged Stress Management (MPSM) Intervention for High Achieving Students and to measure the effects of MPSM. This study examined the extent MPSM intervention for High Achieving Students met its intended objectives to help students to cope with stress, the ways the MPSM intervention changed student ways of coping with stress and the ways of responding to stressful events.
Thirty-one students from a top girls' school in Singapore participated in the study. Data on their knowledge and skills of stress management, their tactics of coping with stress and intensity that each tactics were used and their level of discomfort in each stress-related symptoms i.e. specific situation, personal relations and general, regardless of the situation or the people involved caused them were.
Results reviewed significantly that students have gained more knowledge and skills of stress management and employed more positive coping skills and less negative coping skills after the intervention. However, it is not significant that students' level of discomfort in each stress-related symptoms, specific situation, personal relations and general, regardless of the situation or the people, reduced after the intervention. Further study on the degree of discomfort to stressful events need to be conducted for a more conclusive result.
The purpose of the study is to design a Multi-Pronged Stress Management (MPSM) Intervention for High Achieving Students and to measure the effects of MPSM. This study examined the extent MPSM intervention for High Achieving Students met its intended objectives to help students to cope with stress, the ways the MPSM intervention changed student ways of coping with stress and the ways of responding to stressful events.
Thirty-one students from a top girls' school in Singapore participated in the study. Data on their knowledge and skills of stress management, their tactics of coping with stress and intensity that each tactics were used and their level of discomfort in each stress-related symptoms i.e. specific situation, personal relations and general, regardless of the situation or the people involved caused them were.
Results reviewed significantly that students have gained more knowledge and skills of stress management and employed more positive coping skills and less negative coping skills after the intervention. However, it is not significant that students' level of discomfort in each stress-related symptoms, specific situation, personal relations and general, regardless of the situation or the people, reduced after the intervention. Further study on the degree of discomfort to stressful events need to be conducted for a more conclusive result.
Date Issued
2010
Call Number
BF724.3.S86 Ko
Date Submitted
2010