The Influence of Stressor Agents Over Academic Learning- Motivational Spectrum Approach

Abstract

This study examines to what extent some stressor agents have a negative impact on students’ academic activities from the point of view of stress influence on their personality.The explicit goal of this study resides in the identification of learning strategies/ academic study, which lead to: academic success, the reduction of negative reaction of the factors which are potentially stressful, the improvement of indicator's quality which emphasizes the student's confrontation with such stressful factors. Among these we can mention: the transition from high-school education to superior education, the psychological discomfort generated by emotions specific to the higher education, the effects of fatigue, of academic failure, of overload, of negative perception of teacher's standards (perceived sometimes as stiffness), of the competition with other students, as well the discrepancy between the professional expectation and expectations regarding their exam results, imbalance between academic activities and leisure time activities.This research aims to verify if the students are prepared/ counseled to focus and direct their studying interests according to the formation of an effective learning style correlated with their motivational spectrum.The study's objectives will be: the knowledge of stressor agents in the academic environment, of the level of negative effects generated by stress, the awareness of psychological consequences induced by stress, correlated with the quality of academic instruction, the assessment of student's stress vulnerability, especially in the tense academic environment and of academic learning standards.This research is based on a study realized in 2012-2013, regarding the factors which generate psychological stress at the students of a technical faculty of UPB.The inquiry findings will be correlated with the teaching strategies.We have chosen to realize this study on students because they represent a category of the human resource from the academic environment, having a special social status, being young people developing their knowledge, and future intellectuals. The students are perceived as a distinctive social group of age manifesting different cultural particularities- norms, values specific behaviour principles.Our research represents an analysis in experimental correlated terms, factors, reactions and phenomena triggered in the process of academic learning, as well in the context of some parameters of academic stress among students. This research will try to establish the typology of successful students, to underline the need of reflection and personal meditation in order to define successful practices.