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The study was aimed at examining the role of inadequate physics facilities /accommodation, socio-economic status and poor time management as stressors among Chukwuemeka Odumegwu University (COOU), Anambra State Physics Education undergraduates. The study was guided by five research questions. The survey design was adopted. All the physics Education undergraduates of COOU, Anambra State totalling forty students was used for the study. The researcher used questionnaire instrument targeted to physics Education students of COOU. The research questions were answered using percentages. It was found that low socio-economic status was the highest contributor of stress among COOU Physics Education undergraduates Anambra State with 80% of the respondents indicating that it was a major contributor of stress. It was recommended that counselling services should be rendered to Physics Education students with a view of helping them improve their socio-economic status by helping them getting vacation jobs in their institutions and other places and also helping them manage the time available to them effectively. Moreover conducive atmosphere for learning, adequate Physics facilities and well equipped medical units should be provided by the government and university authorities in order to reduce stress among physics Education undergraduates, so as to meet their academic challenges.
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Okafor, T.U. (2019). Sources of Stressors Among Physics Education Undergraduates of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Nigeria. In: Ao, SI., Kim, H., Amouzegar, M. (eds) Transactions on Engineering Technologies. WCECS 2017. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2191-7_15
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