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Peer reviewedStruthers, C. Ward; Perry, Raymond P.; Menec, Verena H. – Research in Higher Education, 2000
This study with 203 college students used structural equation analysis and found that the relationship between students' academic stress and course grades was influenced by problem-focused coping and motivation, but not by emotion-focused coping. Greater academic stress covaried with lower course grades. (DB)
Descriptors: Coping, Higher Education, Personality Traits, Problem Solving
