THE IMPACT OF ACADEMIC

PRESSURE IN CONTRIBUTING
MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS TO
STEM STUDENTS IN ZAMBOANGA
CITY HIGH SCHOOL-MAIN
Researchers:
Team leader: John Rey I. Francisco
Christine Danielle A. Baysa
Princess S. Dulap
Erica Mae S. Hipolito
Austin Kelly V. Ramillano
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Trying to excel in academics has already cause pressure to
students,although some factors including peer and family
expectation was said to be some of the few variable in this
academic pressure. For many kids,the strain of managing
extracurricular activities, social pressure, and academic
pressure might be too much.Some students may experience
persistent stress and anxiety as a result of the pressure to
perform well academically.
 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The impact that academic pressure could cause to students has
been pretty heated talk lately. Where students protest that
lowering school works and prohibiting giving school activities
and work alike during weekends should be made into action.
Due to this continues protest the DepEd responded and issued
the DepEd Memorandum No.392 where the contend would be
the no-homework policy during weekends so that students
would be able to have their time with themselves, have
sufficient time with families,friends or love ones.
 2010-2011

According to the study and

survey of Amy Novetny , the
pie graph shows the 45.8%
percentage of college students
suffering from mental health 54.2%
problems due to academic
pressure.
STUDENTS ATTENDED COUNSELING
N/A
 2011-2012 2012-2013

47. 48.7%
52. 6% 51.3%
4%
 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
• The impact of academic pressure in contributing mental
illness to stem students of zamboanga city high school-main

• General academic pressure cause in contributing illness

such as depression or other mental health
problem,specifically to science,technology,engineering,and
math(STEM) students. It will specifically respond to the
following question; Specific study: issue: This research
aims to understand the impact that
 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1.How do you think does school pressure contribute in causing mental health problems?

2.How does this impact(school pressure) affect students in terms of their;

• •Daily life
• •Family
• •Social life
• •Private life

3.What are the common factors/cause that contribute on students academic pressure?

4.Do you think it is advisable to lessen school work in order to lessen students pressure?

5.To those students mental health that are severely affected due to academic pressure,what action/behaviour do they usually
exhibit?Does their action lead to in example;
• •Depression
• •Death/Suicide
• •Anger Issue
• •Mental instability Or more weird/dangerous behaviors
 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
If the students are proven to be suffering from mental health
problems and increases the development of anxiety and
depression due to academic loads specially Science,technology,
Engineering and mathematics (STEM) students,who face extra
pressure .Then it would be a huge impact to the academic system
and in considering to the psychological health of STEM students
in Zamboanga City High School - Main.This would also prove
that our nation is currently facing a social threat that could affect
our societies future.
 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
INDEPENDENT VARIABLE DEPENDENT VARIABLE

Root cause of Results to the

academic of pressure possible solution to
in STEM students tha said problem

The independent and dependent variables used in this study are depicted in the
above. The Root cause of acadamic pressure to student is the independent
variable that will be modified. On the contrary, The Results in possible solutions
on the problem are the dependent variabe in this study. The study was the
conceptualized by the researchers as depicted in the diagram.
 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
In accordance with our research topic,our goal in
to understand what would be the effects of school
pressure in regard to students mental health in
focused to STEM students.We aim to explain this
topic in a more detailed data,as in case on how
severe school pressure affects the students mental
health a solution would be made that is base on
this research.
 SCOPE AND LIMITATION
• This study focuses on contribution of academic pressure to
mental health. It also aims to help the students on how to
manage their mental health and developing a greater
understanding of mental health illness that can allow
students to recognize those in their lives who may be dealing
with anxiety, depression, or other conditions that affect their
mental well-being.
• This research will not cover the other topics that are not
necessarily connected on contribution of school pressure to
mental health of STEM students.
 DEFINITION OF TERMS
• Academic pressuren
• Mental illness
• Stress
• Mental Health
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATE LITERATURE
LOCAL
According to Marison Dy, Klarisse, Mellisa, and Sanchez(2015)
from their research "Stressors and stress responses of Filipino
students" that was conducted at Los Baños Philippines. For both
male and female the top five overall stressors of the respondents
were academic difficulty of subject matter, workload due to
subjects, time management because of subjects, responsibilities due
to being on one's own, and time management because of both
subjects and organizations. The most frequently occurring stress
responses were affective stress responses followed by cognitive
responses.
FOREIGN
A certain research that was conducted by Morgan
Rondinelli(2018) and guided by Dr. Meghan Duffy
which entitled “A Mental Health Survey of
Introductory STEM Students”.This research
happened at University of Michigan(America)
which Morgan together with Dr.Meghan concluded
that Mental health problems are prevalent among the
introductory STEM college students who responded
to their survey.
CHAPTER III
 RESEARCH METHODOLGY
This chapter is dedicated on the discussion of the
researchers research methods and procedure in
answering the specific problems systematically for
an investigation. Specifically, this will have the
detail of the methodology used in this study,which
includes research design,locale,population,
instruments,and data gathering.
 RESEACH DESIGN
This study was conducted using quantitative
research techniques and questionnaire was
used in gathering data.To get accurate data, we
created a survey with standardized questions
in a questionnaire, and we handed the
questionnaires to the particular STEM students
at Zamboanga City High School-Main.
 RESEARCH LOCAL
This study will be conducted at Zamboanga City High
School(Main), Philippines. The respondents were the
Senior High students of grade 12 in a particular class of
Science Technology Engineering and
Mathematics(STEM). The participants were given a
particular survey questionnaire to fill out. This study
will be conducted in the second semester academic
year 2022-2023 were the respondents are selected male
and female.
RESEARCH INSTRUMENT
PART I
• Name
• Age
• Grade and Section
• Sex
PART II
Consist of five (5) Questions
• Three (3) questions answerable by “YES” and “NO”
• Two (2) questions are answerable by selecting amng the chices
 DATA GATHERING
This study was conducted using quantitative
research techniques and questionnaire was
used in gathering data.To get accurate data, we
created a survey with standardized questions
in a questionnaire, and we handed the
questionnaires to the particular STEM students
at Zamboanga City High School-Main.
CHAPTER IV
 RESPONDENTS PROFILE
GENDER 16 yrs. 17yrs. 18 yrs. 19 yrs. 20 yrs.
old old old old old
FEMALE 1 16 23 2 3

MALE 0 4 10 1 0
 DATA ANALYSIS
DESCRIPTION Choices Number r Percentage
(n)
Question 1
Does outside factors ,for YES 54 90%
example(peer
s,family ,social or private
life) affects your NO 6 10%
academic stress/ pressure
level?
 DATA ANALYSIS
DESCRIPTION Choices Number r Percentage
(n)
Question 2
Did academic pressure YES 20 33.33%
even once influence your
behaviour into the
though t of killing your NO 40 66.67%
self(suicide) or harming
yourself?
 DATA ANALYSIS
DESCRIPTION Choices Number r Percentag
(n) e
Question 3
Do you think you are YES 42 70%
having any mental
related health issues
due to academic NO 18 30%
pressure?
 DATA ANALYSIS
DESCRIPTION Choices Number r Percentage
(n)
Question 4 Parents/Guardian 11 18.33%

If you are suffering Friends 23 38.33%

from academic Teacher 1 1.67%
pressure,who do you Mental Health Professionals 5 8.33%
seek support,
guidance, or Others 20
(food,self,lovers
33.33%

counselling into or all above

mention)
dealing this?
 DATA ANALYSIS
DESCRIPTION Choices Number r (n) Percentage

Question 5 Not Affected 4 6.67%

How much do you
Midly Affected 39 65%
think does your
mental health has Badly affected 5 8.33%
been affected by Severely Affected 12 20%
academic pressure?
CHAPTER V
 CONCLUSION
In our overall survey the corresponding (5) question has their
respective data which leans to more on the thought that the
Academic Pressure has an impact on student's mental health.
The students are proven that they are suffering from mental
health problems. Academic pressure continues to be a serious
problem impacting a student's mental health and well-being,
according to the findings of this study. Eventually, almost all
respondents agreed that the outside factors affect their academic
performance which lead to academic pressure.
 RECOMMENDATION
We aim to provide more information on
how academic pressure might affect their
mental health. It’s essential for students to
be able to identify their emotional
experiences and to control their emotional
responses to external events.
THANK YOU...