III. Main Body of the Essay
We decided to arrange an essay as our final project for this Emotional Intelligence course. First and foremost, Elga is responsible for the background, Audhie for the objectives, Kelly for the topic significance and correlation to emotional intelligence, Nathan for the justification, Sayyidah and Mutia for the research evidence and example of cases, and Wynona for the society and team perspectives. In addition, Kelly is responsible for partially editing the essay words and format, so is Nathan for the latter. The publisher would be either Elga or Nathan to back up each other just in case there is an issue.
A. Introduction
a) Background
Mental health is one of the biggest issues that is faced by university students. With the academic pressure, students have to deal with stressful tasks and also dividing their university life and their individual life. It has been reported that the number of poor mental health in university students is increasing. In a survey from 274 institutions, 88% of counselling center directors reported that there is an increase in “severe” psychological problems over the previous 5 years including self-injury incidents, eating disorders, sexual assaults, and substance use (Pedrelli, Nyer, Yeung, Zulauf, & Wilens, 2015).
Adolescence is a crucial time where it is very important to have healthy mental health and deep social awareness. This includes interpersonal skills, learning to manage emotions, and also having protective and supportive environments (WHO, 2021). Adolescents are very vulnerable yet most people are not aware of this case which globally, it is estimated that 1 in 7 people around 10-19 year-olds experience mental health conditions, and these remain largely unrecognized and untreated (WHO, 2021). That is why we decided to take this topic as our essay project.
b) Objectives
This research has the following objectives.
1. To declare the importance of social awareness to university students.
2. To make university students understand the importance of social awareness.
3. To make university students have more attention and are able to speak up if there is pressure on the campus.
