Abstract
Undergraduates are often looked upon as the next building blocks in a country’s economic growth and development. It is felt that with the growing body of knowledge and hectic pace of technology, the undergraduate student’s academic workload and academic stress are increasing. This increase in workload and stress can affect the undergraduate student’s mental health. There are limited studies in Malaysia focusing on academic workload and academic stress on the mental well-being among final year students at Taylor’s University School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts. The aim of this study is to research the relationship between academic workload and student mental health, the relationship between academic stress and student mental health and the perceived level of academic stress. Questionnaires were distributed to 201 final year students at Taylor’s University School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts. This study could support the university to review the curriculum and adjust the academic workload in order to reduce academic stress among university students. The results of this study hope to assist university management and students to recognise the relationships between academic stress caused by academic workload and student’s mental health in the Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts courses. Furthermore, students would realise how academic workload and stress can affect their mental health and recognise symptoms such as poor eating habits, insomnia, depression and suicidal tendencies as consequences of academic stress and encourage them to seek help from mental health professionals.
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