Assessing the link between stress and retention and the existence of barriers to support service use within HE
| Autor: | Geraint Florida-James, Patricia Harris, S.A. Campbell Casey, Tony Westbury |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Semi-structured interview
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Further and Higher Education. 40:824-845 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9486 0309-877X |
| Popis: | Students suffer from stress as a result of many factors, including educational unpreparedness, financial strain and inability to integrate socially. This mixed methods study aimed to investigate stress levels of undergraduate students in a post-1992, Scottish university and the potential for measures of stress to act as an indicator of a student’s intention to continue. The study sampled primarily engaged students as tests were administered during timetabled classes and required the students’ voluntary participation. The level of perceived stress reported by these students appeared to be high (mean PSS-14 scores of 18.42 (SD 8.452) and 24.57 (SD 8.969) for males and females, respectively) and was coupled with intention to drop out across all study levels (12.1% of students sampled reported ‘seriously considered dropping out’). Perceived stress score predicted a student’s intention to withdraw but this association did not transfer to actual withdrawal, suggesting that other factors, most likely coping mech... |
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