Stress

• State of worry or mental tension due to difficult situations in our lives

• Environmental stressor = catastrophe

- a sudden and threatful event that requires instant adaption

• Psychological stressors = pressure and uncontrollability

- pressure = the acute needs and expectations from others

- uncontrollability = the limit of control a person has over a situation

• Junior Unified Examination Certificate (JUEC) + MCO

• Love + hate relationship

- higher motivation can reflect on higher academic performance 0 (Kori et al., 2016, as cited in Tus, 2020)

Perfectionist

• Scott (2023) reported perfectionists as individual that have really high standards and are highly critical.

• The all-or-nothing thinking, highly critical towards oneself and others, fearful of failure, tendency to set unrealistic goals and procrastination

• Cause by poor self-esteem, a sense of inadequacy and a need to control things (Scott, 2023)

- insecure when comparing myself with others