Wednesday, May 18, 2016
The media and stress
We have been talking a lot about pressure and stress among students these last weeks. I realized I liked this topic and wanted to learn more about it, so I started doing some research. Lately, I’ve been feeling more stressed than I was before. I’m sure it’s because the end of the school year is coming and we have final tests in two weeks. But, could it also be Availability Cascade? I feel like since everyone talks about how stressed kids from the bay area are, some students hear and read in the media so much about it that they accept it as a reality. I noticed this because in Spain (where I’m from) we also have a lot of pressure to get good grades and succeed, but the extreme amount of stress in students is not a big issue as it is here. Back there I have the same expectations as I do here, but since I read that the level of stress among kids here is really high, I applied it to myself and accepted it as a reality. What do you guys think about this? Do you think that the media is making us believe that we are more stressed than we actually are?
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We do live in Silicon Valley. Of course, kids here have higher expectations. I read a study and watched a Ted Talk about stress. She said that people who say they have stress tend to be concerned than others. Even the word "stress" itself, just saying it makes us feel uncomfortable. We are so used to saying "I'm stressed" without looking deeper into what this means. Ever since the media was created, it has changed what we believe. If someone on the news says it, then it must be true... or is it? They make us question our morals as a person i think. We are told to have all these expectations when really, we should just be ourselves.
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