Academic stress in college students: descriptive analyses and scoring of the SISCO-II inventorydoi:10.7717/peerj.16980CHILEOVERPRESSURE (Education)COLLEGE studentsPROPORTIONAL representationBIVARIATE analysisINVENTORIESIn a competitive and demanding world, academic stress is of increasing concern t...
The amount of academic stress that students experience while navigating studies and university life can be measured with various tests. Learn more about the student academic stress scale, its definition, and take the test to learn the scale. ...
These include transition to college from non-traditional backgrounds, loan debt, stress from examinations and coursework and a competitive job market, in addition to changes in body, mind and social relationships (Johnson & Crenna-Jennings, 2018; Usher & Curran, 2017). More students are ...
The original questionnaires contained (14, 14, 30) items, respectively. All questionnaires’ items were measured on a 5-point Likert scale from 5 to 1, scoring (Strongly agree = 5, Agree = 4, Neutral = 3, Disagree = 2, and Strongly disagree = 1). In this study...
Results from our study echo historic trends in academic performance for racial and ethnic minority students, with our URM students scoring significantly lower on the standardized preclinical NBME exams than their non-URM peers. Additionally, we present recent evidence of academic performance disparities ...
The four components of emotional intelligence, sociability, emotionality, self-control, and well-being are measured on a 7-point Likert scale in both formats. Numerous research, including ones done in a variety of foreign language contexts like Chinese EFL settings, have shown that the short form...
operationalized based on individuals’ residuals onto the regression curve between mental health (school burnout symptoms) and stress exposure (based on36), while correcting for pre-pandemic mental health. We used a scoring scheme to arrive at a more objective measure of exposure17, with minimal ...
The creativity of each person was evaluated using the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) (Torrance,1990). The exam consisted of sixty items, each of which had three possible answers that the participants were asked to choose from. Based on the test's own scoring scale, the overall ...
GPA was assessed by self-report on a four-point scale. For each of the following measures, the items were summed (after re-scoring reversed items) and the total score was used to represent the construct. We used Tuckman’s 16-item procrastination measure, which provides a measure of “the...
Likewise, a systematic review of the Spanish results from the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) revealed notable gender differences depending on the area of knowledge and skills assessed, with girls scoring higher on reading while boys performed better in mathematics and ...