Students' stress: The relationship of college students' stress variables to goal orientations, academic self-concept, and achievement variables.

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dc.contributor.advisorSmith, Jay C.,en_US
dc.contributor.authorAkour, Mohammed Ali A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-16T12:29:50Z
dc.date.available2013-08-16T12:29:50Z
dc.date.issued1997en_US
dc.description.abstractResults revealed that Academic Self-Concept was the most influential and predictive of GPA. Cognitive Appraisal Strategies and Negative Personal Beliefs Stressors had strong influences on Academic Self-Concept. Furthermore, Negative Personal Beliefs Stressors strongly influenced Cognitive Appraisal Strategies. Additionally, Negative Personal Beliefs Stressors correlated strongly with all stressors and stress reactions. Finally, tests for "goodness of fit" indicated that the trimmed model fits the data well.en_US
dc.description.abstractPath analysis was utilized to test the validity of a hypothetical causal model, depicting the influence of students' stressors on Grade Point Average (GPA) when mediated by: (1) Cognitive Appraisal Strategies; (2) Cognitive Reactions; (3) Emotional Reactions; (4) Physiological Reactions; (5) Mastery Orientation; (6) Performance Orientation; and (7) Academic Self-Concept. Students' stressors consisted of: (1) Instruction and Evaluation; (2) Classroom Environment; (3) Teachers; (4) Work; (5) Family; and (6) Negative Personal Beliefs. The convenience sample consisted of college students (N = 582) from two major universities in the Midsouth: The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, and the University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma. Students completed questionnaires designed to assess the aforementioned causal relationship.en_US
dc.format.extentxii, 201 leaves :en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/5531
dc.noteSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-08, Section: A, page: 2996.en_US
dc.noteMajor Professor: Jay C. Smith.en_US
dc.subjectStress (Psychology)en_US
dc.subjectEducation, Educational Psychology.en_US
dc.subjectCollege students Mental health.en_US
dc.subjectPsychology, Cognitive.en_US
dc.thesis.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineDepartment of Educational Psychologyen_US
dc.titleStudents' stress: The relationship of college students' stress variables to goal orientations, academic self-concept, and achievement variables.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
ou.groupJeannine Rainbolt College of Education::Department of Educational Psychology
ou.identifier(UMI)AAI9806324en_US

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