Humor, stress, and coping strategies

2002 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Millicent H Abel
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Sense Of Humor ◽  
Psychology Courses ◽  
Group A ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Everyday Problems

AbstractThis study explored relationships between sense of humor, stress, and coping strategies. Undergraduate students (N=258) from introductory psychology courses completed a perceived stress scale, an everyday problems scale, a state anxiety inventory, a sense of humor scale, and a scale assessing their preferred coping strategies. High and low sense of humor groups were determined by selecting participants with self-reported sense of humor at one standard deviation above and below the overall mean on the sense of humor scale. The high sense of humor group appraised less stress and reported less current anxiety than a low sense of humor group despite experiencing a similar number of everyday problems in the previous two months. The high humor group was more likely to use positive reappraisal and problem-solving coping strategies than the low humor group. A weaker relationship existed between appraisal of stress and number of problems in the low humor group because this group perceived greater stress at low and average number of everyday problems than the high humor group. The results were discussed as supporting the role of humor in restructuring a situation so it is less stressful, and the relationship of humor to both emotion-focused and problem-focused coping strategies.

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.

Stressors, Stress and Coping in Dual-Demand Environments: The Case of Working ‘Back to Schoolers’

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dafna Kariv ◽  
Tali Heiman ◽  
Rishon Le Zion
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Academic Stress ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Working Students ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Reducing Stress ◽  
Coping Behaviours

The main objective of this study is to explore the coping behaviours of Israeli continuing education students who combine work and academic studies. Multi-level analyses revealed that: (1) perceived academic stress is determined by academic load and perceived work stress by workload; (2) coping strategies are related to an array of perceived stresses; and (3) perceived academic stress has a significant influence on coping strategies even after academic load, workload, social support and demographics are taken into account. A major inference of our results is that workers who face dual-demanding environments consider their work to be less controllable than their academic environment and use different coping behaviours to manage each of their dual-demand environments. Implications on the role of organisations in reducing stress of working students are discussed.

scholarly journals Sources of Stress and Coping Strategies Among Undergraduate Nursing Students Across All Years

2021 ◽  
pp. 084456212110280
Author(s):  
Mélanie Lavoie-Tremblay ◽  
Lia Sanzone ◽  
Thalia Aubé ◽  
Maxime Paquet
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Clinical Performance ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
And Coping

Background Undergraduate nursing students experience high levels of stress during their programs. The literature on their stress is extensive, however, what is less well-known are the specific sources of stresses for students in different years of study. Purpose The aim of this study is to understand nursing students’ sources of stress and coping strategies in each year of study. Method A transversal descriptive qualitative study was used. A sample of 26 undergraduate students attending a university in Montreal, Canada were recruited and participated in a semi-structured interview. Data were analysed using inductive thematic analysis. Results The sources of stress differed according to year of study and related significantly to the specific novelty of that year. For first-year students, their stress was related to their academic courses. High clinical performance expectations and a lack of time for their personal lives was a main source of stress for second-year students. The prospect of graduating and transitioning into the work environment caused stress for students in their final year. Students across all years of study utilized similar coping strategies. Conclusion The findings suggest that interventions can be developed to address the sources of stress experienced by nursing students in each year of study.

scholarly journals The Role of Optimism in Stress and Coping of Undergraduate Students in Goa

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Pacheco ◽  
Dr. Shanmukh V. Kamble
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Life Orientation Test ◽  
Life Orientation ◽  
Positive Reinterpretation ◽  
Instrumental Social Support ◽  
And Coping

The present study was designed to study the relationship between optimism, stress and coping with stress. The sample for the study comprised of 500 undergraduate students from colleges in Goa. Three measures—‘Life Orientation Test-Revised’ by Scheier & Carver (1994), ‘Perceived Stress Scale’ by Cohen, Kamarck, & Mermelstein (1983), and ‘COPE’ by Carver, Scheier, & Weintraub (1989) were administered to participants. The findings of the research indicate a moderate negative relationship between optimism and stress. Optimism was found to be positively related to positive reinterpretation and growth, use of instrumental social support, active coping, acceptance, suppression of competing activities, and planning, and negatively related to mental disengagement, behavioural disengagement, focus on and venting of emotions, denial, and religious coping.

scholarly journals Role of work stress and coping strategies of employee’s Performance: An Empirical study with reference to private university employees.

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaifali Garg
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Private University ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
University Employees ◽  
And Coping

The article tries to explore the role of Work  stress and coping strategies of employee performance, This study is an attempt to emphasis  that performance of  employees is influenced by Work  stress and effort expended by them in coping with stress. Private university Employees are not a stress free community. Overall similarity in coping behavior of employees is indicative of a possibility that the bureaucratic structure has an important role to play in deciding the reactions of employees. According to Lazarus & Folk man (1984) coping is a mechanism of  handling  external and internal demands that are exceeding the resources of the person in order to prevent negative consequences. This research paper is inferential analysis in nature and makes use of primary data as well as secondary data .Regression analysis  were used to test the statistical significance of this impact and ANOVA were used to test the hypothesis. The study found that Majority of employees perceived moderate work stress that are inter-related with Employee’s Performance.

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