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Brianna R. Stith; Xu Jiang – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: Stress stemming from practical or financial obstacles is among the top sources of stress for college students. The current study examined if one new positive psychological strength factor, personal growth initiative, functioned as a buffer to protect young adults' life satisfaction, anxiety, and depression from practical stress.…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Life Satisfaction, Undergraduate Students, Resilience (Psychology)
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Andrea M. Flynn; Brian A. Sundermeier; Nicole R. Rivera – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of a new measure of academic stressors (the ASM) in college students. Participants: The ASM was given to 677 undergraduate students at three universities along with measures of anxiety/depression, Big Five personality traits, and study skills. Methods: Tests of…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Stress Variables, Undergraduate Students, Anxiety
Rachel Elaine Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative correlational-predictive study was to determine if, and to what extent, self-talk (self-reinforcing, self-managing, combined and individually) predicts academic burnout for undergraduate students in the Southwest region of the United States. The triadic model of self-regulated learning and job demands-resource…
Descriptors: Self Management, Metacognition, Burnout, Undergraduate Students
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Paralkar, Urvi; Knutson, Douglas – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Stress is a barrier to academic success for college students and the unique resilience effects of ambiguity and uncertainty tolerance have yet to be explored. We hypothesized that tolerance of ambiguity and tolerance of uncertainty relate to academic stress differently. Participants: We recruited 158 undergraduate participants from a…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Stress Management, Undergraduate Students, Ambiguity (Context)
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Christen Abraham; Michelle Leonard; Charles Giraud – American Journal of Health Education, 2024
Background: Developmentally, social relationships are critical in the lives of emerging adults; however, little research has been focused on the types of protective behaviors that individuals on college campuses engaged in during the pandemic. Purpose: This study examines predictors of emerging adults' self-protective behaviors with a focus on…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Predictor Variables, Health Behavior
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Qiong Wang; Guoqing Zhao; Jinglan Zeng – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
Although studies have highlighted the importance of facilitating conditions in enhancing students' digital informal learning (DIL), the effect mechanism is still unclear. This study examined the mediating role of digital competence and the moderating role of technostress between facilitating conditions and DIL. Data were collected from 385…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technological Literacy, Stress Variables
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Luke D. Vaartstra; Trevor Taone; Amy Mezulis – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objectives: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) risk in young adults is impacted by both affective and cognitive responses to stress. While previous research shows affective reactivity (AR) increases risk for NSSI, less research has examined the role of cognitive reactivity (CR). The current study examined how individual differences in CR to stress…
Descriptors: Self Destructive Behavior, Injuries, Young Adults, Stress Variables
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Tolulope M. Abidogun; Elaine Cooper Russell; Lisa L. Lindley; Kenneth W. Griffin – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: Examine predictors of alcohol misuse among university students amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants: University students who completed the National College Health Assessment III before, during, and after the pandemic lockdown. Methods: Using multivariable logistic regression, we examined associations between psychological…
Descriptors: Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Orly Lipka; Miriam Sarid – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
Using a mixed method approach, the study examined the emotional and academic adjustment to higher education amongst undergraduate students, in light of the Spring, 2020 COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. The undergraduate students' social, emotional, institutional and academic adjustment, during the COVID-19 outbreak pandemic was compared with a database…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Emotional Response, Undergraduate Students, COVID-19
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Yung, Shun Ting; Chen, Yaoyu; Zawadzki, Matthew J. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Changes in surroundings and social relationships may heighten feelings of loneliness, suggesting the need to measure as a state. This study tested whether loneliness fluctuates within and across days and the resultant associations with psychological distress. Further it tested familism as a moderator as endorsing this cultural value may…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, Predictor Variables
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Smith, Matt; Runswick, Oliver R.; Jewiss, Matt; Birch, Phil – Educational Psychology, 2022
Challenge and threat responses have been seen to predict success in meaningful performance environments, however, it is not as clear whether challenge and threat states predict academic outcomes. We tested if predictions from the Theory of Challenge and Threat in Athletes (TCTSA) can be extended to an academic context, by considering antecedents…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Student Athletes
Meeks, Michael Charles – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined sleep quality and academic performance in regarding to the quality of sleep and grade point average; however, there was still a lack of understanding despite much research as to the role of academic stress. The specific research problem was a lack of understanding about the role of academic stress in the relationship between…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, Stress Variables, Undergraduate Students
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Zhao, Lei – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
Social media use can bring negative effects to college students, such as social media addiction (SMA) and decline in academic performance. SMA may increase the perceived stress level of college students, and stress has a negative impact on academic performance, but this potential mediating role of stress has not been verified in existing studies.…
Descriptors: Social Media, Undergraduate Students, Addictive Behavior, Predictor Variables
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Gibbons, Chris – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2023
The aims explored associations between stress ratings and influences on coping and personality on student course satisfaction and anxiety. Most research construes stress as distress, with little attempt to consider positive 'eustress' experiences. Undergraduate students (N = 162) were surveyed on student and pandemic-related stressors,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Coping, Anxiety
Evrette Samuels-Bailey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examines stress and coping strategies among nursing students at a community college in Jamaica. The research focuses on the perceived reasons for stress, its influence on their wellbeing and academic performance, and their strategies to cope. The study used a qualitative approach to answer the research questions: (1) What are the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Nursing Students, Student Experience, Stress Variables
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