The Impact Of Stress On Students’ Social Behaviour In Secondary Schools In Buea Municipality

Abstract

This research “The impact of stress on students’ social behaviour in some secondary schools in Buea municipality” has as an objective to find out the role stress can play on students social behaviour in general with particular attention to students within the Buea municipality. Four main indicators (time management, parental pressure, students’ academic environment and school curriculum) were used to ascertain the effects of stress on students. In a bid to produce better results, a total of 100 questionnaires were distributed to three secondary schools of different academic settings (that is one government school and two lay private schools) all located in the university town of Buea, South West Region of Cameroon. The research design used was the survey research design based on findings. The sample used for this study was a two stage simple random sampling technique with no returned questionnaire out of the one hundred questionnaires administered. The data was analyzed using the descriptive statistics and the overall results show that students tend to be positive and can perform well academically when they are stress up.