'Manage' is a key word here. Stress is inevitable. It is integral to existence itself. I guess you are talking about keeping stress under reasonable levels.  To achieve anything you need to stretch and stress up yourself a bit but then find a way of unwinding periodically which is what you are asking us to discuss. Take regular physical exercise. Drink plenty of fluids, especially water in the mornings. Listen to soulful music. Meditate if you can, imageless, wordless, and thought-less. Savour the healing beauties of nature. Bring nature into your living room. E.g install a home made aquarium. Feeding the fish and watching them play can do an academic a world of good. Above all honour your relationships.Catch up with your family and friends.Be present to them and listen to their more to them. These small steps can help a lot to give us balance.

'Manage' is a key word here. Stress is inevitable. It is integral to existence itself. I guess you are talking about keeping stress under reasonable levels.  To achieve anything you need to stretch and stress up yourself a bit but then find a way of unwinding periodically which is what you are asking us to discuss. Take regular physical exercise. Drink plenty of fluids, especially water in the mornings. Listen to soulful music. Meditate if you can, imageless, wordless, and thought-less. Savour the healing beauties of nature. Bring nature into your living room. E.g install a home made aquarium. Feeding the fish and watching them play can do an academic a world of good. Above all honour your relationships.Catch up with your family and friends.Be present to them and listen to their more to them. These small steps can help a lot to give us balance.

Academic stress is a hybrid term here.

Where the concept (stress) remains within the framework of human behavior

To control any stress, we must first eliminate the causes and move to a different environment and different events, With a renewed  everything that surrounds us

I am elated by your sound comments dear Rose and my brother Salam

Stress is inevitable  and can be removed by remaining calm and facing situations.

Dear Professors Sircar, Mohammad, Gabriele and Alfred, I appreciate you practical views. Thank you very much.

                                                                                           Dickson Adom

These are very good contributions. Following

Schedule specific periods to relax, exercise or just disconnect is a good way

Many thanks Professor Humberto, Dr. Catia, Dr. Paul and Dr. Harry for your insightful comments and support to the discussion. I am very grateful. Best regards

Really very important question dear brother Dr.Dickson. Personally, I prefer to over come such kind of stress(s) to leave all academic activities for short time interval and participating in my family domestic activities plus traveling outside my country. Existing of you dear Dr.Dickson and other RG colleagues in my life also eliminating my academic stress?

Regards,

Emad

Time management

Mental stress may be prevented/ reduced by proper planning/utilization of time and available resources, back up plans etc. Physical stress may be prevented/ reduced by regular and proper workload along with necessary health cares such as good diet habits, exercises etc. But, these two things becomes contradictory, if there is improper balance. A harmony between two is essential. In both the case, prevention is better than cure.

Regards

Chitra

To unwind periodical from stress which in academics is inevitable is to plan vacations alongside your programme every year. it could be once or twice in a year. In this case, you leave your environment and cut out from every link connecting you to the same stress you wish to unwind from.

In today's world, it is difficult to change the stressful situations, and all we can do is to reduce those positions and not to remove them. The key to the solution is to program our daily life system, and enjoy the components of our life program and without interference between them.

Not only in researches, but also in any other activity, it is preferable that the one should take a brake from while to while in order to change the routine and not to make it a boring labor.

Dear Dickson

I suggest you see these links for find appropriate answers:

1)http://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2011/09/academic-stress.aspx

2)https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10615809608249396

3)Article Academic stress of college students: Comparison of student a...

My wonderful friends Prof. Aparna, my dearest brother Prof. Emad, Dr. Abass, Dr. Ahmed, Prof. Isam, Dr. Jumoke, Dr. Chitra and Dr. Drlatief,

Thank you so much for your excellent views and great support to the discussion. I am highly grateful. Best regards

Dickson

They must find other hobbies such as sport

Good Morning my Dear Brother Dickson Adom

In addition to my previous response nine months ago

I think academic work is basically based on change, and Change management, these two terms are linked to the behavior of the academic person, he or she can not succeed unless the process of modernization and change is applied to him or her self

in other word,

The daily academic behavior should not be the same as the day before.

Accept my best and cold regards in this hot season dear brother.

Dear brother Prof. Salam Jassim Hmood,

I am so grateful to you for the excellent insight on unveiling the cause of academic stress and how to combat it via 'change management'. Its really interesting and feasible. I send you warm regards from our cold season here to you my dearest brother. Best regards

Thanks for your valuable comment Dr. Borden. Indeed, having time to engage in a favorite hobby can help us in managing academic stress. Best regards

By all means an investigation into the nature of the stress, some of which must be inbuilt into career expectations, but for the individual-exercise, and more exercise. This is the only way to deal with it.

Dear Dr. Stanley,

You are utterly right. Exercise can work miracles for us in reducing stress from academic work. Thanks and best regards

Current age is of information, and therefore stress. Our social life also needs written proofs for marketing, education, health care and all the fields. We have less physical works at present than the past.

We have turned into thinking machines, and stress is inevitable sometimes. Be friendly with nature, do some exercises and meditations, and try to have limitations in dreaming.

Dear Prof. Prabhat,

Thank you for your very rich comment. Indeed, 'limitation in dreaming' can inextricably reduce academic stress! Best regards

Take time out to do some exercise.

Nice question@ Dickson Adom

I am following

Thank you so much Prof. Mahesh

Thanks so much Dr. Olutosin

With approach of Regular and focused study.

You may go on a walk down your street and sometime take time out to unwind by paying visit to some friends close by. This goes a long way in reducing stress in our body.

The best and most efficient way that I have found is through playing of musical instruments like guitar, violin, keyboard, etc. This really help reduce stress.

All the best.

I appreciate your proactive suggestions to ease stress Prof. Ajit, Dr. Oluwaseun and Dr. Adebayo. Thank you so much for supporting the discussion. Kind regards

You are welcome Dickson.

Thanks for recommending my answer@

• Oluwaseun A. Otekunrin
• Dickson Adom

I had my best research ideas when I was enjoying a meal or having a long walk early morning . I learned to always have a notebook with me and write any idea wherever I am. One day; I had an idea while driving . I parked my car and wrote it down☺

Dear Prof. Zin,

Thanks sincerely for sharing your awesome experience with us. I am very grateful. Kind regards

What are some of the effective ways researchers and academicians can manage the academic stress?

You can also refer to these RG links:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_reduce_stress_at_work

https://www.researchgate.net/post/what_you_generally_do_to_decrease_the_level_of_stress

Good food, good rest and creating time to have fun with family and friends will help. Honestly we need rest.

Dear Prof. Han,

Thank you for your very useful and informative links. I am really grateful. Kind regards

Dickson

Dear Dr. Segun,

You are very right in your candid and excellent viewpoint. Thank you

Dickson

All wonderful options. Thank you all.

i would say in today’s world Stress is accompanied with responsibilities( the higher you climb the ladder). There are too many deadlines to meet and last minute distribution of work increases stress factor.

The art of learning to say “No” to short term deadlines or work outside your field is very important.

The major sources of academic stress are the presence of excessive information and the pressure of heavy workload, that cause harmful effects on their health and performance. However, all of those academic life struggles can be overcome by using proper self- regulation (the ability to calm oneself when facing emotional discomfort ). self-regulation is associated with high well-being, including good mental health, ability to maintain effective social relationships, and adaptive functioning in office and home.

Dickson, my old friend.

Take only one breath at a time.

Dennis

Dennis Mazur

I sincerely appreciate your rich and very useful comments Dr. Helen, Dr. Arben, Dr. Dhiaa and Dr. Dennis. Thank you so much for supporting the discussion. Kind regards

time management is the appropriate word to minimize academic/research stress

Thank you dearly Dr. Latief for your great view. I am very grateful. Kind regards

For taking care of stress, one may try as follows:

-Spend time with students for research work.

-Interacting with students may be a stress reliever.

-Delegate and allocate work to team members

-Take a walk around periodically

-Exercise daily. Physical activities may be great stress reliever for mental work.

-Spend quality time with family and friends

Dear Prof. Ashok,

Your valuable bullets are of great practical worth in managing academic stress. Kind regards

1 If I live in insecure, life-threatening circumstances and have the problem of securing my existence and the existence of my family, this situation creates stress.

2. if I live in secure legal-political circumstances, but in strong competition with others in my profession, this creates stress.

3) If I have far too many options for action, one better than the other, and I don't know which one to choose, it creates stress.

4) RG with its constant requests to upload more research results, ask more questions, provide more answers and emphasize the importance of achieving high scores (with simultaneous uncertainty among RG participants as to how the score is calculated,) then this creates stress.

These are - as an example - four different forms of stress. I suspect that the possibility of getting under stress mentioned in point 3 is typical of modern society. I suspect it is rarely recognized in its structure - and yet it can be mitigated by simple means: By consciously limiting the options for our actions to what is important to us and strictly avoiding those options that can sometimes be important but take a lot of time and make us directly or indirectly dependent on them.

This would mean, for example, limiting our use of media if we are always willing to use our mobile phone, whether we are sending or receiving an SMS or calling up information. Here you have to shape your own life very consistently by reducing options for action. I know it's easier said than done.

For a real academician,there is no academic stress.Rather they pursue their work happily with interest.

smart work instead of hard work to manage the time....

Both answers, Shibani and Ajit, I support. The conditions of the given institution where your are working, and the conditions of private life are quite different worldwide for academics. So it is for some of us more difficult, for other of us easier to follow the model of "being wise" as an academic. But the claim not to be affected by daily stress, to set an example for others and to radiate calmness is important to remember again and again.

I appreciate your intelligent views Prof. Hein, Dr. Shibani and Prof. Ajit. They have really enriched the discussions. Kind regards

Following

Dear colleague

I agree with Rose Nkechi Uchem's answer

And if you :-

Organize

Manage

Follow up

And schedualizing your daily duties with our axceptions

I think you can control the source of stress and then you can fix this issue

Good L

and I missed you cuz I was awy from RG events cuz i was very busy with my students

GL

Dear brother Prof. Salam,

It's so good hearing from you. I understand your situation. I appreciate your very useful suggestions on how to manage academic stress. I miss you too brother. Kind regards

try to be calm, and carefully select your team.

Thanks Dr. Azzawi. I am very grateful for your support and important view on the subject. Kind regards

Everyone should adopt the following to manage stress and any kind of tension/depression:

1. Meditation

2. Mindfulness

3. Yoga

These techniques are highly effective and reliable.

Good luck!

Thank you Prof. Mahesh for your very rich comment. I am grateful for your support to the discussion. Kind regards

Do yoga and Meditation and make part of your life every day to manage the stress!

Excellent contributions on this discussion.

You are utterly right Dr. Olutosin

When research scholar enjoys the needful work, stress will never be to resist his/her workflow. Yes, miss-management and/or over-management are anomalies.

Great Dr. Jahangir. Thanks for your important viewpoint. Kind regards