Stress Management Among Students in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Abstract

Stress is an unavoidable reality of life that everyone must deal with. Some stress is good where it can trigger our fight-or-flight mechanism to help in case of emergencies but too much stress can harm our health and body. Different people will have different responds to stress, therefore, it is important to learn what stresses us out and how to cope with it. The purpose of this research is to study stress management among UTM students. After a thorough survey, the following aspects were identified and are briefly discussed here: level of stress, causes of stress, effect of stress, methods to relieve stress and ability to cope with stress. These are all evidence-based techniques with good results in individual with or without stress.