Stress is constant especially when a person is studying and working at the same time. This study entitled “Factors Affecting Stress Occurrence among Working Criminology Students of Gov. Alfonso D Tan College, Philippines” aimed to assess the factors affecting stress occurrence among criminology working students in GADTC. The study utilized a descriptive quantitative method to quantify and describe the level of stress of working criminology students. In this quantitative study, an adopted and modified questionnaire was used to gather the data and a total of three hundred fifty (350) were the respondents which the researchers randomly chose using random sampling. Based on the data gathered from the respondents, the findings revealed that the respondents have a high level of stress in terms of physiological stress, emotional stress and behavioral stress. However, behavioral stress was seen as the factor that mostly affect the stress occurrence of working criminology students. Additionally, the study found that there was no significant difference between the respondents’ level of stress in terms of their age, sex, type of work and number hours rendered. This means that the level of stress of the respondents were respectively the same in terms of their profile. Furthermore, since the respondents have a very high level of stress, an intervention program should be made.
