Family and Academic Stress and Their Impact on Students' Depression Level and Academic Performance

Abstract

Current research examines the impact of academic and familial stress on students' depression levels and the subsequent impact on their academic performance based on Lazarus' cognitive appraisal theory of stress. The non-probability convenience sampling technique has been used to collect data from undergraduate and postgraduate students using a modified questionnaire with a five-point Likert scale. This study used the SEM method to examine the link between stress, depression, and academic performance. It was confirmed that academic and family stress leads to depression among students, negatively affecting their academic performance and learning outcomes. This research provides valuable information to parents, educators, and other stakeholders concerned about their childrens' education and performance. © © 2022 Deng, Cherian, Khan, Kumari, Sial, Comite, Gavurova and Popp.

Keywords

Author Keywords

Higher education structural equation modeling (SEM) Academic performance university students depression academic stress academic learning

Index Keywords

learning human questionnaire Article Likert scale structural equation modeling education human experiment postgraduate student academic achievement university student tertiary education convenience sample cognitive appraisal family stress

Author Affiliations

Department of Business Administration, Greenwich University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

School of Mechatronics Engineering, Daqing Normal University, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China, School of Marxism, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

College of Business, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Department of Business Administration, Iqra University, Karachi, Pakistan

Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

Department of Business Sciences, Giustino Fortunato University, Benevento, BN, Italy

Process Control and Geotechnologies, Technická Univerzita v Košiciach, Kosice, Kosice Region, Slovakia

John von Neumann University, Kecskemet, Bacs-Kiskun, Hungary, College of Business and Economics, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Funding & Acknowledgements

Grant: 20SZB01

This work was funded by the 2020 Heilongjiang Province Philosophy and Social Science Research Planning Project on Civic and Political Science in Universities (Grant No. 20SZB01). This work is supported by the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research, and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy Sciences as part of the research project VEGA 1/0797/20: Quantification of Environmental Burden Impacts of the Slovak Regions on Health, Social and Economic System of the Slovak Republic.

Vedecká Grantová Agentúra MŠVVaŠ SR a SAV, VEGA

Grant: 1/0797/20

This work was funded by the 2020 Heilongjiang Province Philosophy and Social Science Research Planning Project on Civic and Political Science in Universities (Grant No. 20SZB01). This work is supported by the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research, and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy Sciences as part of the research project VEGA 1/0797/20: Quantification of Environmental Burden Impacts of the Slovak Regions on Health, Social and Economic System of the Slovak Republic.

Vedecká Grantová Agentúra MŠVVaŠ SR a SAV, VEGA

This work was funded by the 2020 Heilongjiang Province Philosophy and Social Science Research Planning Project on Civic and Political Science in Universities (Grant No. 20SZB01). This work is supported by the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research, and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy Sciences as part of the research project VEGA 1/0797/20: Quantification of Environmental Burden Impacts of the Slovak Regions on Health, Social and Economic System of the Slovak Republic.

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Family and Academic Stress and Their Impact on Students' Depression Level and Academic Performance

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