Janet has a paper due in her english class, a test in her psychology class, and field notes due in her anthropology class this week. on top of it all, she needs to meet with her advisor to plan out classes for next semester. janet feels pressured. she is experiencing:

Janet is experiencing role strain. A role strain is defined as a phenomena in which a person’s role is being conflicted between other roles that the individual has. It is an experience of which there is an incompatible obligation or behavior associated to a single social role.