Effects of Stress on Academic Performance

Stress can cause depression and ruin lives, but how much does it affect students and their school work? The data was collected from a comprehensive survey of 1,100 students conducted in October 2023 on students from Nepal, focusing on various stress factors affecting academic performance. Data cleaning involved removing incomplete responses and standardizing measures for anxiety levels, sleep quality, and academic performance to ensure accuracy and consistency in the analysis. One unit in stress level is linked to a decrease of about 1.4 points in academic performance, though the true decrease could be as small as 1.2 points or as large as 1.5 points.