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Coping Strategies for Student Academic Stress
Research Guide
What is Coping Strategies for Student Academic Stress?
Coping strategies for student academic stress encompass problem-focused, emotion-focused, and avoidance mechanisms aimed at reducing academic pressures and enhancing student resilience.
This subtopic examines the effectiveness of various coping methods in mitigating academic stress among students. Key studies include Basith et al. (2021) analyzing stress levels and coping strategies in relation to achievement (33 citations), and Alexopoulou et al. (2019) on resilience interventions for gifted students (87 citations). Research spans over 10 papers from the provided list, focusing on interventions like motivational interviewing (Afriwilda & Mulawarman, 2021).
Why It Matters
Effective coping strategies improve academic achievement and psychological well-being, as shown by Basith et al. (2021) linking low stress and adaptive coping to higher performance. Interventions build resilience, countering underachievement in gifted students (Alexopoulou et al., 2019) and reducing procrastination mediated by social support (Madjid et al., 2021). In post-pandemic contexts, they address stressors like social media fatigue (Rahardjo et al., 2020) and technology use (Kılıç Türel & DOKUMACI, 2021), mitigating long-term risks such as anxiety and depression (Shaffique et al., 2020).
Key Research Challenges
Measuring Coping Effectiveness
Quantifying which coping strategies best reduce academic stress remains challenging due to varied student contexts. Basith et al. (2021) highlight inconsistencies in stress-coping-achievement links. Self-report biases complicate validation (Rahardjo et al., 2020).
Developing Targeted Interventions
Tailoring interventions for diverse stressors like procrastination or social media use proves difficult. Alexopoulou et al. (2019) note gaps in resilient strategies for gifted students. Motivational interviewing shows promise but needs broader testing (Afriwilda & Mulawarman, 2021).
Addressing Avoidance Coping
Avoidance mechanisms often exacerbate stress and underachievement despite awareness. Madjid et al. (2021) identify resilience mediation failures in procrastination. Post-pandemic fatigue amplifies this issue (Akram et al., 2022).
Essential Papers
Resilience and Academic Underachievement in Gifted Students: Causes, Consequences and Strategic Methods of Prevention and Intervention
Arhondoula Alexopoulou, Alexandra Batsou, Athanasios Drigas · 2019 · International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering (iJOE) · 87 citations
Extensive research and numerous reviews have been conducted in the last years, concerning gifted students. The present review aims at investigating the special personality traits of the resilient g...
Social media fatigue pada mahasiswa di masa pandemi COVID-19: Peran neurotisisme, kelebihan informasi, invasion of life, kecemasan, dan jenis kelamin
Wahyu Rahardjo, Nurul Qomariyah, Indah Mulyani et al. · 2020 · Jurnal Psikologi Sosial · 36 citations
Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk memeriksa apakah neurotisisme, kelebihan informasi, invasion of life, dan kecemasan memengaruhi social media fatigue pada mahasiswa yang belajar di rumah kar...
ACADEMIC STRESS AND COPING STRATEGY IN RELATION TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
Abd Basith, Andi Syahputra, Slamat Fitriyadi et al. · 2021 · Jurnal Cakrawala Pendidikan · 33 citations
Stress on students is more common and varied. Therefore, a good coping strategy is needed in order to control stress and increase academic achievement. The purposes of this study are: 1) to describ...
Use of media and technology, academic procrastination, and academic achievement in adolescence
Yalın Kılıç Türel, Ozlem DOKUMACI · 2021 · Participatory Educational Research · 29 citations
In today’s learning society, use of media and technology affects students in all educational levels. There are a number of studies conducted among university students in this context. However, adol...
Meta-analysis of Prevalence of Depression, Anxiety and Stress Among University Students
Shifa Shaffique, Sehar Shahzad Farooq, Haseeb Anwar et al. · 2020 · RADS Journal of Biological Research & Applied Sciences · 27 citations
Background: The global burden on mental disorders have become too advanced with serious consequences on health and society. Over the years, depression, stress, and anxiety have become more common s...
The Effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing Counseling to Improve Psychological Well-Being on Students with Online Game Addiction Tendency
Mayang T. Afriwilda, Mulawarman Mulawarman · 2021 · Islamic Guidance and Counseling Journal · 25 citations
Psychological well-being is a condition of a person who is not only free from pressure or mental problems but a mental condition that is considered healthy and functioning optimally. This study aim...
Academic Procrastination and Social Anxiety as Predictive Variables Internet Addiction of Adolescents
Zeliha Traş, Gülden Gökçen · 2020 · International Education Studies · 24 citations
This study is aimed to examine the relationship between Internet addiction and academic procrastination and social anxiety. The study group of this research is 599 high school students, 239 (39.9%)...
Reading Guide
Foundational Papers
Start with Safaria (2014) on religious coping and role stressors for early stress models, then Ananya et al. (2013) on procrastination interventions to grasp pre-2015 bases.
Recent Advances
Prioritize Alexopoulou et al. (2019) for resilience strategies and Basith et al. (2021) for empirical stress-coping data; follow with Wijaya et al. (2023) on performance factors.
Core Methods
Core techniques: surveys and regression for stress levels (Basith et al., 2021), structural equation modeling for mediators (Madjid et al., 2021; Wijaya et al., 2023), and intervention trials like motivational interviewing (Afriwilda & Mulawarman, 2021).
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PapersFlow's Research Agent uses searchPapers and citationGraph to map high-citation works like Alexopoulou et al. (2019, 87 citations) on resilience interventions, then findSimilarPapers uncovers related studies on procrastination coping (e.g., Madjid et al., 2021). exaSearch reveals intervention efficacy across 250M+ OpenAlex papers.
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Analysis Agent employs readPaperContent on Basith et al. (2021) to extract stress-coping correlations, verifies claims with CoVe for evidence strength, and runs PythonAnalysis with pandas to meta-analyze prevalence data from Shaffique et al. (2020). GRADE grading scores intervention robustness in Afriwilda & Mulawarman (2021).
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Synthesis Agent detects gaps in avoidance coping across Rahardjo et al. (2020) and Kılıç Türel & Dokumacı (2021), flags contradictions in resilience effects. Writing Agent uses latexEditText, latexSyncCitations for Basith et al. (2021), and latexCompile to produce reports; exportMermaid visualizes coping strategy flows.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What defines coping strategies for student academic stress?
They include problem-focused (e.g., planning), emotion-focused (e.g., venting), and avoidance mechanisms to reduce academic pressures, as evaluated in Basith et al. (2021).
What are common methods in this research?
Methods involve surveys of stress-coping links (Basith et al., 2021), resilience interventions (Alexopoulou et al., 2019), and structural equation modeling (Wijaya et al., 2023).
What are key papers?
Top papers: Alexopoulou et al. (2019, 87 citations) on gifted student resilience; Basith et al. (2021, 33 citations) on stress-coping-achievement; Rahardjo et al. (2020, 36 citations) on social media fatigue.
What open problems exist?
Challenges include validating interventions across demographics and countering avoidance coping persistence, as noted in Madjid et al. (2021) and Akram et al. (2022).
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