Name : Edy Wijaya

Student ID : 0314036

Group : A

Module : English 1

Session : April, 2013

Q.1

In some countries young people have little leisure time and are under a lot of

pressure to work hard in their studies. What do you think are the causes and

effects of this condition? Plan your response, and then write a cause and

effect essay.

Lack of leisure time and stress on young people

Characteristic

Poor/no time management

Self-esteem

Bad habit

Parents' Influence

Parent's high expectation

Children's desire to make their parents

proud

Parent's desire for their children to be

success

Academic pressure

Examination

Studying especially for exam - too many

to do and the amount to learn

Examination Result

Prewriting

Lack of Leisure Time and Stress on Young People

Nowadays, men’s leisure time have decreased and stress have increased

all over the world, especially for young people. Young people all over the

world are now fighting for leisure time to enjoy their youth but sadly, most of

them failed in the battle and in addition to that, they gain more stress. There

are few things that caused these things to happened like their characteristic,

their parents’ influence and even academic pressure.

Characteristic really affect the level of leisure time and stress of people,

especially young people. Young people lack of experience and tend to just go

with whatever knowledge they learnt from high school thus, they don’t

manage their time properly and in return, they usually face problems, worry,

embarrassment, etc. (on stress caused by poor time management (“Time

Management And Stress: You Have The Power To Ease The Stress,” 2007)).

Next, self-esteem, having low self-esteem will limit you from being able to do

many things like having less friends than others that will hold any help and

good things to reach you and give you problems (on stress caused by low

self-esteem (“When Low Self Esteem Is The Real Cause Of Stress,” 2012)).

In addition, having bad habits like doing things slowly, leaving works

unsolved, delaying works, doing last minute works, irregular and unhealthy

food habits, showing and throwing temper/anger, lack of exercise, etc. will

also contribute to the problem (on stress caused by bad habits (“10 Bad

Habits That Increase Stress Levels,” 2013)). Finally, all of these will lead to

the decreased of leisure time and the increased of stress.

Next is parents’ influence. Children usually get influence by their parents’

mindset, and thus often times parents’ high expectation like hoping their

children to get straight A influenced their children and causes them to have

the desire to make their parents proud of them and this will make them to

work/study harder even though sometimes their parents’ expectations are just

way too high (on the effects that parents’ expectations have on the behavior

of their children (“Explain the effects that parents' expectations have on the

behavior of their children.?,” 2008)). Moreover, parents will not stop by just

having high expectation for their children, they will also expect their children to

be success in life and having everything like all kinds of cars a man can

dream of and all of these is the cause of their children’s little leisure time and

more stress.

After that, the other reason for this problem is academic pressure. One the

biggest reason is examination (Abouserie, 1994), examination will put much

pressure on students and cut most of their time for study, too many things to

do and to learn for their mathematic examination would stressed them out and

of course steal their leisure time away (Abouserie, 1994). Not to mention the

examination results where it is also one of the biggest contributor to the

problem (Abouserie, 1994), if a student gets a C for his examination papers

after he put a lot of effort into it, he will receive a day full of stress. And so, all

of this will brings about a little leisure time and more stress for young people.

In a nut shell, having very little of leisure time and are under a lot of

pressure, are actually caused by our own characteristic, parents’ influence

and academic pressure. One must know and understand these reasons well

to resist the lack of leisure time and having a lot of stress in his/her life, they

must know how to change and have a good habit, don’t be too shy, manage

their time well so that they have time for study as well as time for play, study

hard and serious, enjoy their leisure time, prioritize important things, etc.

References

Time Management And Stress: You Have The Power To Ease The Stress

http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/time-management-and-

stress-you-have-the-power-to-ease-the-stress/352613

When Low Self Esteem Is The Real Cause Of Stress.

http://www.stress-and-relaxation.com/cause-of-stress.html

10 Bad Habits That Increase Stress Levels.

http://www.boldsky.com/health/wellness/2013/ten-bad-habits-that-

increase-stress-levels-033283.html

Explain the effects that parents' expectations have on the behavior of their

children.?.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?

qid=20080317200420AAXJTUi

Abouserie, R.(1994). Educational Psychology: An International Journal of

Experimental Educational Psychology [Sources and Levels of Stress in

Relation to Locus of Control and Self Esteem in University Students].

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