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Prof., Haramaya University, College of Education and Behavioral Sciences, Ethiopia, [gemechu46@yahoo.com](gemechu46@yahoo.com & gemechugobena127@gmail.com)[ &](gemechu46@yahoo.com & gemechugobena127@gmail.com)[ gemechugobena127@gmail.com](gemechu46@yahoo.com & gemechugobena127@gmail.com)  \nThe study aimed to investigate the Effect of Academic Stress on Students’ Academic Achievements and Its Implications for Their Future Lives. A correlational research design was employed through stratified random sampling (ni = 270, where female = 80 and male =190) to collect pertinent data through a questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed. Firstly, academic stress highly affects students’ academic achievement, with females being more stressed (65.20%) than males (59.60%), which leads to a high dropout rate and low graduation rate. Secondly, about 69% were accustomed to drinking alcohol, chewing Khat, absenteeism, and smoking whereas about 31% were regularly engaging in unsafe sex, physical fights, smoking shisha, and poor personal sanitation. Thirdly, there were significant positive relationships among sex, age, academic batch, and student’s cumulative grade point average. To conclude, academic stress hinders good academic achievement, increases college dropout rates, low graduation rates, and lack of self-confidence. It leads to drinking alcohol, absenteeism, chewing khat, reduced academic morale of students, and failure in completing assignments on time. Therefore, university authorities should ensure a good academic environment for the students and minimize academic stress through appropriate course load, appropriate lecture hours, proper lecture schedules, and non-congested lecture halls.  \nKeywords: academic achievement, Haramaya university, psychology, stress  \nINTRODUCTION  \nAmong various types of stress, academic stress may be the most salient for students at any level of education either primary, secondary, or tertiary, which is highly related to competitive academic examinations, such as university entrance examinations and high school entrance examinations (Jun and Choi, 2015) . Consistent with the transactional model of psychosocial stress proposed by Lazarus (1966), the level of perceived academic stress is determined not only by the number of academic stressors but also by how students interpret these stressors (Chua, Ng, and Park, 2018) . Consequently, Sun, Dunne, Hou, and Xu (2013) defined academic stress as subjective psychological distress from multiple aspects of academic learning, rather than a sum of stressors. The sources of academic stress can originate from the heavy burden of homework, and negative attitudes toward learning, such as loss of interest and difficulties in learning, etc (Wunsch, Kasten, and Fuchs, 2017) . Meanwhile, the academic expectations from students and significant others, like parents and teachers, have also been demonstrated to be important factors of academic stress. Academic stress occurs when academic demands exceed a student’s perceived ability to cope with them. As the burden of academic material varies within a semester, the academic stress may also change over time (Xiang, Tan, Kang, Zhang, and Zhu, 2019) .  \nIn previous studies, academic stress is associated with negative psychological consequences such as unpleasant emotional states, depression, tearfulness, even self-harm, and suicidal feelings in some cases (e.g., Lotz and Sparfeldt, 2017; Soares and Woods, 2020) . Besides, students with a high level of  \nCitation: Gobena, G. A. (2024) . Effects of academic stress on students’ academic achievements and its implications for their future lives. Anatolian Journal of Education, 9(1), 113-130.","cbCaibDGS388FGj7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibDGS388FGj7","pdf",373995,18,"English","# Introduction\n## Concept and sources of academic stress\n## Prior findings and mixed perspectives\n## Rationale for the present study","[{\"question\":\"What research design and sampling method were used to study academic stress?\",\"answer\":\"A correlational research design was used with stratified random sampling of 270 students. Data were collected through a questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.\"},{\"question\":\"How does academic stress affect students’ academic achievement, according to the findings?\",\"answer\":\"Academic stress was found to highly affect academic achievement, with females reporting higher stress than males. 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