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Background: Stress is a person's reaction both physically and emotionally (mentally or psychologically) if there is a change in the environment that requires a person to adapt. According to WHO (2020) there are 79% of suicide attempts and health problems due to stress occur in the age range of students to college students, namely 15-29 years. Objective: to determine the risk factors associated with stress in students of the Fajar Timur Jayapura Papua School of Philosophy and Theology. Method: The type and design of the study is Cross Sectional, using saturated samples which means all members of the population are sampled. The total sample of all students of the Fajar Timur Jayapura Papua School of Philosophy and Theology is 189 respondents. Primary and secondary data collection uses the chi-square test method with bivariate analysis. Results: A total of 56.1% respondents experienced stress, aged 17-25 years 94.7%, non-Papuan ethnicity 59.8%, residence in the seminary 61.9% and the most were in the second year 59 31.2%. In this study, there was a significant relationship between stress levels and activities other than lectures for 52.4% with a p-value of 0.019 and an alpha value of <0.05. There was a significant relationship between stress levels and family support for 86.8% with a p-value of 0.005 and an alpha value of <0.05. There was no significant relationship between stress levels and academic achievement with a p-value of 0.415 and an alpha value of >0.05. Conclusion: The stress levels of STFT Fajar Timur students mostly showed the stress category for 106 respondents (56.1%).