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Bhupin Butaney; Eve B. Hoover; Bettie Coplan; Kari Bernard – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: To identify stress management practices and examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on well-being among male and female physician assistant (PA) students. Participants: Participants included 1,239 students from nine PA programs who matriculated pre-pandemic, acute pandemic, or post-acute pandemic. Methods: Measures included…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Stress Variables, Life Satisfaction
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Odaci, Hatice; Kaya, Feridun; Aydin, Fatih – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
The present study aims to investigate the mediator role of educational stress in the relationship between intolerance to uncertainty and academic life satisfaction among teenagers. The sample consisted of 257 female and 202 male high school students with an average age of 16.03 (SD = 1.21) continuing their education in the spring semester of the…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Student Attitudes, Stress Variables, COVID-19
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Anar Kuanganovna Bikadamova; Konrad Reschke Horst; Alena Garber; Zulkiya Moldakhmentova; Laura Ismailbekovna Shalabayeva – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2023
The purpose of this paper is to identify protective factors for students' anxiety management under exam stress. Students experience a range of negative emotions in addition to exam anxiety throughout university exams including stress, fear of knowledge assessments and fear of low performance. However, students' exam preparation and passing can be…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Test Anxiety, Psychological Patterns, Coping
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Andrea Bohman; Maureen A. Eger; Mikael Hjerm; Jeffrey Mitchell – European Journal of Higher Education, 2024
In this article, we analyse the level of and development in students' academic stress due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We devote particular attention to students that first entered university in 2020, 'the COVID cohort', who had fewer opportunities to integrate in ways that theoretically should mitigate the impact of pandemic-induced disruption to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Foreign Countries, College Students, Life Satisfaction
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Will Futch; Nakia S. Gordon; Alyson C. Gerdes – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: To increase our knowledge related to student wellness programs, the current studies examined interest in wellness and wellness programs among university students and piloted a newly developed wellness program targeting students in higher education. Participants/Methods: In Study 1, 93 undergraduate students answered questions related to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Wellness, Student Interests, Mental Health
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Seth J. Schwartz; Beyhan Ertanir; Audrey Harkness; Byron L. Zamboanga; Melissa L. Bessaha; John B. Bartholomew; Alan Meca; Minas Michikyan; Maria Duque; Pablo Montero-Zamora; Claudia López-Madrigal; Linda G. Castillo; Miguel Ángel Cano; Kaveri Subrahmanyam; Brandy Piña-Watson; Pamela Regan; Lindsay S. Ham; Marissa K. Hanson; Charles R. Martinez Jr. – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: We examined the role of personal identity vis-à-vis COVID-related outcomes among college students from seven U.S. campuses during spring/summer 2021. Participants: The present sample consisted of 1,688 students (74.5% female, age range 18-29). The sample was ethnically diverse, and 57.3% were first-generation students. Procedures:…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Students, Self Concept
Richa Bhatia – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The need for mental health resources in universities has seen a rise after the pandemic. Students have encountered various issues related to the transition and adjustment from online to in-person classes. Additionally, students in general have been known to have issues related to stressors of transitioning into adulthood and navigating their new…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Adjustment, Stress Management
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Larcombe, Wendy; Baik, Chi; Finch, Sue – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
University students are known to be at heightened risk among their peers for experiencing psychological distress and mental health difficulties. To date, there have been few interventions designed to reduce stressors in the educational environment. This may be due to limited research investigating course-related correlates of students' distress.…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Psychological Patterns, Well Being, Foreign Countries
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Sofie Holmquist; Miguel Inzunza; Mehdi Ghazinour; Bert Jonsson – Education Inquiry, 2024
Need-satisfying experiences corresponding to students' psychological needs of autonomy, relatedness, and competence lead to increased academic engagement and well-being. A lack of education-specific basic needs instruments validated in Swedish may inhibit basic needs research in Swedish-speaking student populations. Thus, the present study aimed…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Competence, College Students, Student Needs
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Gungor, Abdi; Young, Mark E.; Sivo, Stephen A. – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2021
Negative life events are unpleasant, stressful, and uncontrollable experiences found to be risk factors for increased psychological distress and decreased life satisfaction in college students. In addition, distress and life satisfaction are closely related to college students' quality of life and academic performance. Conversely, positive…
Descriptors: Trauma, Experience, Psychological Patterns, Stress Variables
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Wittner, Britta; Barthauer, Luisa; Kauffeld, Simone – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2023
Social support is a crucial factor for first-generation students' (FGS) integration at university and their educational success. FGS are often assumed to lack social support and integration, but research shows mixed results. By means of a mixed-methods approach (combination of interviews and online survey), we aimed to shed light on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, First Generation College Students, Social Capital, Social Networks
Erin Dowdy; Michael J. Furlong; Karen Nylund-Gibson; Dina Arch; Tameisha Hinton; Delwin Carter – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2023
The original Social Emotional Distress Survey--Secondary (SEDS-S) assesses adolescents' past month's experiences of psychological distress. Given the continued need for and use of brief measures of student social-emotional distress, this study examined a five-item version (SEDS-S-Brief) to evaluate its use for surveillance of adolescents' wellness…
Descriptors: Wellness, Measures (Individuals), Secondary School Students, Mental Health
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Rosa, Douglas; Sabiston, Catherine M.; Kuzmocha-Wilks, David; Cairney, John; Darnell, Simon C. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: To examine the differences in experiences of stress, emotional well-being, and physical activity among international and domestic students. Participants: Domestic (n = 4,035) and international (n = 605) students at a large Canadian university. Methods: Responses to items on stress, emotional well-being (happiness and satisfaction with…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Mental Health, Well Being, Psychological Patterns
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Haliwa, Ilana; Spalding, Rachael; Smith, Kelly; Chappell, Amanda; Strough, JoNell – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: College students' psychological health may be compromised due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we aimed to identify risk (eg, perceived risk of contracting COVID-19) and protective factors (ie, social support, mindfulness) for positive (ie, subjective happiness, satisfaction with life) and negative (ie, depression, anxiety, stress)…
Descriptors: Risk, Health Behavior, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Duffy, Ryan D.; Kim, Haram J.; Boren, Shaun; Pendleton, Leslie; Perez, Gianella – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2023
The present study examined the degree to which a large group of incoming college students (N = 2,290) had experienced economic constraints and marginalization across their lifetimes, before starting college. Latent profile analysis (LPA) was used to identify groups of students whose lifetime experiences differed based on economic constraints and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Experience, Financial Problems, Power Structure
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