The mediating effect of stress coping strategies on the relationship between academic stress and the school adjustment in Korean adolescents

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junghyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
School Adjustment ◽  
Academic Stress ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Korean Adolescents ◽  
Stress Coping Strategies ◽  
The Relationship

Influence of stress and coping strategies on undergraduate students' performance

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luqman Oyekunle Oyewobi ◽  
Gbolahan Bolarin ◽  
Naomi Temitope Oladosu ◽  
Richard Ajayi Jimoh
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Stress ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
University Administration ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Stress Coping Strategies ◽  
And Coping

PurposeThis study examined the causes of academic stress amongst undergraduate students in the Department of Quantity Surveying to ascertain whether stress has an influence on their academic performance.Design/methodology/approachThis research explores the relationships between these constructs: academic stress, non-academic stress, coping strategies and academic performance, using a survey questionnaire to collect data from 190 undergraduate students in the Quantity Survey department. Descriptive statistics have been used to analyse the data and a path analytical approach has been adopted to evaluate the relationship between the constructs discussed in the paper.FindingsSignificant linear associations have been established between all the proposed paths and the outcome factor (p < 0.00). Coping strategies were an important mediator (p = 0.000), as they explained 32.9% of the association between academic stress and non-academic stress. However, the findings have shown that the stress faced by students is an optimal degree of stress that improves learning capabilities.Practical implicationsExplanation and clarification of the effects of academic and non-academic stress and coping mechanisms on the academic performance of university undergraduate students could help to reduce the risk of suicide amongst the teeming youths. It will also afford the university administration the opportunity to engender stress-free environment that is conducive for learning through the formulation of appropriate policies that promote “balanced learning” for the students. The outcome of this study may provide a launch pad for researchers who are interested in knowing how the possible causes of stress may impact on the health of university students.Originality/valueThe findings will be of great importance to the academic advisers and university administration in developing a flexible academic calendar and adopt policies that will eliminate academic stress and promote strategies to cope with non-academic stress. The study is the first attempt to examine academic stress, non-academic stress, coping strategies and academic performance in a single research in the Nigerian context due to limited literature found. This study has pedagogical implications to education practice by offering tertiary institutions the opportunity to appraise and device a means of managing students' stress by identifying their needs and increase students' coping skills based on prevailing modalities that give students' opportunities to strengthen the strategies of coping.

scholarly journals Relationship between psychological resilience and stress coping strategies in karate athletes

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Sonnur Kuçuk Kiliç
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Resilience Scale ◽  
Stress Coping Strategies ◽  
Coping Scale ◽  
Sport Clubs ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Karate Athletes

<p>The aim of this research was to examine the psychological resilience and stress coping strategies of Karate athletes according to some demographic variables and to determine the relationship between them. A sample of 104 (54 females and 50 males, mean age 19.85±4.10 years) Karate athletes who trained in different sport clubs in Turkey were recruited. The <em>Brief Resilience Scale (BRS)</em> (Smith et al., 2008) and the <em>Stress Coping Scale (SCS)</em> (Sahin &amp; Durak, 1995) were used for data collection. Descriptive statistics, <em>t</em>-test and correlation analyses were used for data analysis. Participants’ psychological resilience was at mid-level, while the SCS <em>self-confident approach</em> and <em>seeking social support </em>sub-dimensions were at high and low level respectively. The athletes’ psychological resilience and stress coping strategies differed significantly according to gender. There was a positive and low significant correlation between experience and psychological resilience, in contrast a to negative and low significant correlation found between experience and <em>helpless</em> <em>approach</em> SCS sub-dimension. Middle and positive correlation was observed between age and psychological resilience. Finally, there were positive and middle significant correlations between psychological resilience and <em>self-confident</em> <em>approach</em> and <em>optimistic approach</em>, and a negative and middle significant correlation between psychological resilience and <em>helpless</em> <em>approach</em> SCS sub-dimensions.</p>

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