Stress is the body's response to a normal occurrence. Its effect though may either be positive or negative top the person. Not properly addressed, stress could lead to consequences that organization to include higher education institutions may find hard or almost impossible to reverse. This study was conducted to determine the occupational stressors as experienced by the personnel of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in Region Two (02), namely Cagayan State University-Andrews Campus (CSU-Andrews), St. Paul University Philippines (SPUP) in Tuguegarao City and Quirino State University-Cabaruguis Campus in (QSU-Cabaruguis), Cabaruguis, Quirino. 72 HEI personnel holding various positions to include supervisory, faculty members and staff, coming from the three institutions were taken as respondents of the study. A survey questionnaire was crafted, floated, tabulated and analyzed using descriptive statistics like frequency count, percentage mean and weighted mean. Results of the study revealed that the personnel of higher education institutions in Region 2 are highly affected by occupational stress with factors pertaining to physical environment having the highest effect.
Stress, Occupational Stress, HEI, Physical Environment, Individual Stress, Group Related Stress, Organizational Stress, Productivity
