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Rappleye, Jeremy; Komatsu, Hikaru – Oxford Review of Education, 2018
East Asian dominance in international large-scale assessments is widely known. This is often explained as an outcome of highly competitive, exam-oriented education systems in East Asia, wherein students partake in a fierce competition for limited college entrance. Although achievement scores may be comparatively higher, the argument goes, the…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Cross Cultural Studies, Competition, High Stakes Tests
Spence, Ruth; Kagan, Lisa; Nunn, Stephen; Bailey-Rodriguez, Deborah; Fisher, Helen L.; Hosang, Georgina M.; Bifulco, Antonia – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Background: Students often simultaneously deal with shifting support networks, stressful life changes and psychological distress which may affect academic achievement. Methods: 285 students completed the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) to assess depression and the Computerized Life Events Assessment Record (CLEAR), to establish life events…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Experience, College Students, Academic Achievement
Chelidoni, O.; Berry, C.; Easterbrook, M. J.; Chapman, L.; Banerjee, R.; Valex, S.; Niven, J. E. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2023
The current research aimed to evaluate UK student mental health during the first 4 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we were interested in exploring factors that contribute to students' anxiety levels about COVID-19. Demographics, mental health symptomatology and well-being-related variables were tested as predictors of COVID-19…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Anxiety, Foreign Countries
Jääskeläinen, Tuula; López-Íñiguez, Guadalupe; Phillips, Michelle – Music Education Research, 2020
Neoliberal education policies -- viewing students' life as human capital, economic investment for the labour market and consumer power -- may increase students' workload in higher education. In this mixed methods study, we examined music students' experiences of workload in Finland and the United Kingdom in connection with stress and livelihoods.…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Music Education, Neoliberalism, Student Attitudes
Xie, Yarong; Yaqoob, Anum; Mansell, Warren; Tai, Sara – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2021
Architecture students have been reported to experience significant stress, yet little has been researched. This study aims to examine how architecture students experience and cope with stress. Twelve participants studying Architecture at bachelors and masters levels took part in individual interviews. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Architecture, Foreign Countries, Student Experience
Lingjie Tang; Chang'an Zhang – SAGE Open, 2023
As the volume of research on intercultural adaptation of international students (IAIS) increases significantly over the past decades, a systematic review of the diverse literature on a global scale and its development process becomes essential. This study conducted a thorough bibliometric analysis for the knowledge domain of IAIS research using…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Intercultural Communication, Bibliometrics, Student Adjustment
Alharbi, Eman S.; Smith, Andrew P. – International Education Studies, 2018
This review aims to address the major sources of stress experienced by international students, the role of individual differences, the chronology of their stress levels and wellbeing over time, and gaps in the existing literature. Two electronic databases (PubMed and Psych Info) were searched for English peer-reviewed articles using eight search…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Well Being, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
Bennett, Rebecca Iranzo; Egan, Helen; Cook, Amy; Mantzios, Michail – Higher Education for the Future, 2018
Higher education students experience heightened levels of stress and anxiety, and report experiencing negative thoughts and emotions, which influence information retention and recall. In a randomized experiment, we assigned participants to either a mindfulness meditation or an audiobook listening condition, and recorded the information recalled…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Relaxation Training, Attention Control, Recall (Psychology)
Payne, Helen – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2022
Using the UK as an example, students attending higher education providers (HEPs) increasingly suffer mental ill-health due to new stress factors. Relationships between stress, frequently co-occurring chronic medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) and mental health are explored as the basis for proposing The BodyMind Approach® (TBMA) as an innovative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Mental Health, Mental Disorders
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
Gibbons, Chris – Psychology Teaching Review, 2012
The aim was to explore the predictive ability of sources of stress and a range of dispositional and coping behaviours on student satisfaction and motivation. Most research exploring sources of stress and coping in students construes stress as psychological distress, with little attempt to consider positive experiences of stress. A questionnaire…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Student Motivation, Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes
Whittle, Sue R. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
Recent studies have indicated that the "sophomore slump" (dissatisfaction and disengagement of second year students in the US) may also be observed in other countries, including the UK. However, no studies have reported on the effects of support interventions on student perceptions. This study used the DREEM-S survey, a modification of…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Surveys, Student Satisfaction, Learner Engagement
Parker, Michael; Winstone, Naomi E. – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2016
Recent approaches to assessment and feedback in higher education stress the importance of students' involvement in these processes, where effective reception of feedback is as important as effective delivery. Many interventions have been developed to support students' active use of feedback; however, students' engagement will be influenced by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Intervention
Denovan, Andrew; Dagnall, Neil; Dhingra, Katie; Grogan, Sarah – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
University life can be stressful, and accurate measurement of perceived stress is important for research and practice. However, despite widespread use, disagreement persists regarding the latent structure of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), which poses serious consequences for how the measure should be administered. Furthermore, factorial…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Stress Management, College Students, Gender Differences
Roome, Tim; Soan, C. A. – Pastoral Care in Education, 2019
In the UK education system, an 'audit culture' has led to pressures being placed on students to achieve high grades in their GCSEs. It has been suggested that schools are required to achieve good academic results and look after their students' wellbeing, causing a conflict in relation to public examinations, such as GCSEs. School staff support…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Secondary School Students, Exit Examinations