The Profile of Perceived Academic Stress in Higher Education

Stress is a psychological symptom experienced by every human including students. This study aims to determine the profile of students’ academic stress in State University of Surabaya. The research subjects were 3 of 7 faculties selected by cluster random sampling. There were 1553 students as participants, consisting of 301 male students and 1253 female students. The Perception of Academic Stress Scale (PASS) instrument from Bedewy and Gabriel (2015), was used after an adaptation process first. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics to determine the frequency of academic stress level. The analysis showed that there were 74 students or 5% of the population categorized as very high academic stress; 316 students or 20% of the population categorized as high academic stress; 833 students or 54% of the population categorized as moderate academic stress; 267 students or 17% of the population categorized as low academic stress tegory; and 63 students or 4% of the population categorized as very low academic stress.