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Donald Brown (1967)
Student Stress and the Institutional EnvironmentJournal of Social Issues, 23
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Communication and Permusion
How First Year University Students See Themselves : of Self-Percepts and Role Conflict First Year University Students STEPHEN BOCHNER A student in the first year of his university course faces a variety of potentidy stressful d, personal and academic situations (Brown, 1967). Universities are cognisant of this fact, and most campuses now have a student counselling service, which is aimed at alleviating the “problems in living” (Szasz, 1960) developed by students as a consequence of the stresses and strains inherent in the university environment. Concurrent with such remedial activity there is a pressing need for research that is aimed at identifying the specific determinants of stress, particularly for first year students. A potential source of stress lies in the scholastic demands made on students by the university. In general, academics tend to take the view that they are dealing with the cream of the youth of society, and are therefore justified in making fairly heavy intellectual demands on their students. Although the assumption about relative student excellence is probably quite valid, whether the student perceives the demands made on him to be excessive or not depends in part on how much confidence he has in his own capabilities. The-present
Australian Journal of Education – SAGE
Published: Oct 1, 1971
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