anxiety reduction and time manageme

anxiety reduction and time management in conjunction with leisure activities may be an effective stralegy for reducing academic stress in college students
adisturbing trend in colleged student health is the reported increase in student stress nation wide stress-sors a affecting students can be categorized as academic,financial, time or health related, and self-imposed. academic stressors include the student's perception of the extensive knowledge base required and the perception of an inadequate time to develop it. students report experiencing academic stress at predictable times each semester with the greatest sources of academic stress resulting from talking and studying for exams,grade competition , and the large amount of time.
when stress is perceived negatiely or becomes excessive,students expenrience physical and psychological impairment. methods to reduce stress by students often include effective management in leisure pursuits. leisure satifaction is defined as the postive feelling of contentment one perrceives as a result of meeting personal needs through leisure activities. although relationships among some leisure domains and perceived stress have been studied in a variety of settings involving retirees to school-related setting , relationships between leisure satisfaction and academic stress of college students have not been addressed directly. the only scientific research that specifically related leisure satisfaction to academic stress was that of Ragheb and Mckinney , who established a negative association between academic stress and leisure satisfaction. a limitation of this study, however, was that it measured academic stress using seven items that it measured academic stress using seven items that were extracted inclusively from occupational stress inventories.
the concept of time management is