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INFERIOR WAYS OF COPING WITH STRESS: DROPPING-OUT AND STRESS

In many ways dropping-out is the youngster’s equivalent of his father’s early retirement.

For some people unemployment may be an overriding problem. There is the loss of income and the social stigma. This may cause significant stress. For others, dropping-out and consequent unemployment may be an inferior way of coping with the stress of work. The student of marginal ability is always hard put to it in his studies, and exams become a problem which produces all the unpleasant symptoms of stress. Dropping-out removes the problems and stress is reduced.

As with his father, who does the same thing in early retirement, the youngster is able to support his decision to drop out with a whole series of rationalizations: ‘What is a degree? A piece of paper! Let’s get our values right.’ ‘I am going to drop out. See a bit of the world. Then come back to it, maybe.’ ‘Life is for living. I am going to camp with the others up in the northern beaches. There is plenty of pot. They are all so unconcerned. That’s what life should be.’ ‘Sweat all night for a piece of paper! Tell me, where does it get you?’ So he drops out. His level of stress is reduced, so he likes to stay that way.

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