The Relationship among Academic Stress and Coping－A Case Study on Senior High School Students In Changhua Area

• Main Authors: Ssu-yuan Chen, 陳思媛
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/66186402597212178381

碩士 === 立德大學 === 城鄉與資產計劃學系 === 97 === This paper focuses on the academic stress that senior high school students face and how they try to deal with it. Students from various social and economical backgrounds are carefully analyzed to understand the differences when they handle with academic pressures. Questionnaires are used in this study to investigate the second-graded senior high school students in Changhua County. This study uses simple random sampling to randomly choose two classes from each selected school. The number of questionnaires sended to all schooles is 748 and valid samples amount to 739 people. The retrieval rate of questionnaires is 98.80%. The research tools of this paper consist of a self-designed stress scale of senior high school students and questionnaire of their coping methods. The obtained data are analyzed by the mean, standard deviation, T-test, and one-way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation, and multiply regression. The conclusions of this study are as follows: 1.Senior high school students usually feel a middle or low degree of academic stress. From high to low, they accordingly face personal stress, school stress, family stress and peer stress. 2.Senior high school students usually cope with academic stress by actively solving problems, asking for social supports and alleviating their emotion. They seldom try to evade the problem and find a outlet for their emotion. 3.Senior high school students of different sexes, school types, and residential locations have obvious differences in the degree of academic stress they feel. Girl students feel more personal stress than boy students. Private school students feel more school stress than public school students. Urban students have more peer stress than rural students. 4.Senior high school students of different sexes, residential locations, and family social and economical statuses have obvious differences in the frequencies of their coping with academic stress. 5.The way for senior high school students to deal with academic stress positively correlates with their stress level. 6.Based on a senior high school student’s background variables and his coping strategies, we can predict his academic stress level. Based on the results from this study, we provide some recommendations for the educational administrations, institutes and high school teachers.