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Peer reviewedStruthers, C. Ward; Perry, Raymond P.; Menec, Verena H. – Research in Higher Education, 2000
This study with 203 college students used structural equation analysis and found that the relationship between students' academic stress and course grades was influenced by problem-focused coping and motivation, but not by emotion-focused coping. Greater academic stress covaried with lower course grades. (DB)
Descriptors: Coping, Higher Education, Personality Traits, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedWan, Teh-yuan; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1992
A study of 412 foreign graduate students investigated their (1) perceptions of the stressfulness of role demands and (2) abilities to cope with those demands. Results indicated students associated English language skills and cultural distance with stresses and language, academic, and problem-solving skills with coping capacity. Implications for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Coping, English (Second Language)
