Revisions:

Title: A Nebulous, Necessary Evil: Stress that Students Experience on a Daily Basis

The title is good, but it sounds like a tongue twister, simpler words are better to use here, hence
“A Nebulous, Necessary Evil: Stress that Students Experience on a Daily Basis”

Theoretical Framework:

Figure 1: Richard and Lazarus’ Transactional Model of Stress and Coping

Richard S. Lazarus was a psychologist who rose to prominence in the 1960s. He graduated
from City College of New York and the University of Pittsburgh, and began teaching in 1959 at
the University of California, Berkeley and in the 1970s he worked with Susan Folkman, and
co-authored a book called “Stress, Appraisal and Coping” in 1984.
Susan Kleppner Folkman was an American psychologist, author, and emerita professor of
medicine at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). She is internationally
recognized for her contributions to the field of psychology, specifically in stress and coping.
Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman founded the “The Transactional Model of Stress and
Coping”, a framework that emphasizes appraisal to evaluate harm, threat and challenges, which
results in the process of coping with stressful events (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984).

Stress Coping Mechanism and Its Impact to Their Age among Senior High School Students at
Parañaque National High School-Baclaran, a study made by Dr. Rey S. Guevarra and Romel
A. Cimanes (2017), made use of Lazarus and Folkman's transactional model of stress and
coping and discussed why students experience tension as they attempt to balance their school,
work, and time with family and friends. Stress has been entrenched in the lives of specific
students. However, allowing tension to become a way of life for students in Senior High School
is risky
because high levels of stress can have a devastating impact on a student's life, leading to
anxiety, depression, and many more worrying problems. As a result, students must develop a
stress management mechanism to minimize the detrimental effects of stress on their learning
and performance. The study adds that individuals experience stress differently and interpret it
differently. Management is a perpetual mental and behavioral challenge to deal with demands
deemed burdensome or beyond one’s capacity. This is based on Richard Lazarus's
transactional model, which states that stress occurs when events and responsibilities exceed
one's coping abilities.

Richard and Lazarus’s transactional model is significant in the researchers’ study because it
provides a basis for an individual's experience of stress, and possible coping mechanisms,
which the researchers focus on. Additionally, the model emphasizes on the individual perception
of a person's psychological situation as a critical factor. This can be used for a background in
assessing, comparing, and differentiating the experiences of Grade 11 students and how they
cope with stress.

The old theory “Psychosocial Development Theory by Erik Erikson, does not fit into the aspects
of the SOP 1 (Stress is not present in the theory) It’s better to look into studies that contain the
presence of stress and coping mechanisms.

Research Design: The research design (case study) will become very difficult if used. We will
not be allowed to go to other classes for data collection. It is also very time consuming. And
so, Descriptive-Qualitative Study should be used instead.