The Stress Problems and the Needs for Stress Counseling of High School Students in Vietnam

Dinh Duc Hoi,Huynh Van Son,Tran Luong,Do Tat Thien,Giang Thien Vu

doi:10.12973/eu-jer.8.4.1053

Abstract

<p style="text-align:justify">The correlation between the stress problems and the needs for high school students’ stress counseling in Vietnam is an unspecified issue that deserves attention. This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that there was no correlation between the stress problems and the needs for counseling of high school students in Vietnam. Survey of 1,200 high school students in Vietnam from grades 6 to 12 with questionnaires, the results show that the mean score of stress problems in high school students is 2.67 - corresponding to moderate level. Different levels of learning and living conditions are encountered in different student’s stress problems. The mean score for high school students' stress needs of counseling is 3.18 - corresponding to the optional level. Different levels of education have different needs for stress counseling. There is a strong correlation between high school students' problems and needs for stress counseling. The more problematic high school students experience in stress, the more they need to be counseled on this issue.</p>

Highlights

Psychological disturbances or social conflicts in Vietnamese high school students have recently been as a natural law and a more complicated situation
Many studies in the issue of stress during high school period, listing as: da Andaet al (2000) research on stress and stress factors; the correlation between stress and mental health among high school students conducted by Suldo, Shaunessy, and Hardesty(2008); the issue of study pressures and resolutions researched by Hussain, Kumar, and Husain (2008); the topic of academic stress, family pressure and mental health among high school students performed by Deb, Strodl, and Sun (2015); the correlation between study pressures and study motivations by Liu (2015); the situation of homosexual high school students’ stress, anxiety and depression researched by Davies, and Kessel (2017), etc
In Vietnam, initially, stress researches are paid more attention and performed in a deeper level in medicine major and psychotherapy; not many studies related to students’ stress, especially, the needs of stress counseling, have been conducted due to the fact that high school students, during their puberty period together with their distinctive psychological development, develop stress, anxiety, even depression mainly resulted from school, family and school impacts (Chi, 2011)

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Introduction

Psychological disturbances or social conflicts in Vietnamese high school students have recently been as a natural law and a more complicated situation. That the current condition of school violence, stress, depression, even suicidal intention is taking place publicly or silently within high school student communities is hard to be identified (Son, 2007). This reality is confirmed as one main factor resulting in stress in high school students’ psychological life (Duc, 2014). In Vietnam, initially, stress researches are paid more attention and performed in a deeper level in medicine major and psychotherapy; not many studies related to students’ stress, especially, the needs of stress counseling, have been conducted due to the fact that high school students, during their puberty period together with their distinctive psychological development, develop stress, anxiety, even depression mainly resulted from school, family and school impacts (Chi, 2011)

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