Track: Undergraduate Student Paper Competition

Abstract

Academic performance is one of the indicators of educational accomplishment. Stress prompts low confidence of students, trouble in dealing with various circumstances, seeing disorders, and decreased attention to academic accomplishment and self-improvement of students. Fatigue or tiredness and lack of energy are some of the most generally reported consequences of the new normal: online learning. More than 90% of students have come up against negative mental health signs because of the pandemic. The study aims to examine whether stress and fatigue have a significant impact on the academic performance of Industrial Engineering Students in the Technological Institute of the Philippines - Quezon City. The researchers make use of Pearson Correlation Coefficient, Multiple Regression, Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), and Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS). The dependent variable is academic performance, while the independent variables were: stress and fatigue. The level of perceived stress of college students was measured resulting in low stress (f=2, 4.35%), moderate stress (f=40, 86.96%), and high perceived stress (f=4, 8.69%) with a total frequency of 46 and a percentage of 100%. The level of fatigue of college students was measured resulting in a total score of (f=35, 76.09%) experiencing fatigue and (f=11, 23.91%) not experiencing fatigue. Based on the statistical tests applied by the researchers, the model produced by correlation did not fit data well, having a p-value of 0.313 for stress and 0.532 for fatigue. The multiple regression analysis has indicated that both stress and fatigue do not affect the academic performance of college students. This means that stress and fatigue do not have a significant impact on the final model, although it is an important variable and is significant while correlating with academic performance.