The Effect of University Students’ Personality Structure on Perceived Academic Stress

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Effect of University Students’ Personality Structure on Perceived Academic Stress

Original language description

In recent decades, there has been an increase in the degree of university students’ perceived academic stress, which represents a serious problem for the effectiveness and results of the entire university study. An effort to achieve a higher level of academic performance may initiate academic stress and lead to low academic performance. The occurrence and development of academic stress is affected by a number of factors, one of the strongest being the personality (personality traits). Personality traits are based on the Big Five concept, constitute a fundamental and stable part of the personality, and thus play an important role in students’ functioning at university (and of course not only at university). In other words, it can be expected that the degree of academic stress will vary depending on personality traits. Therefore, the main research questions were as follows: “What are the correlations between personality traits (according to the Big Five concept) and academic stress in university students?” and “Does gender affect the relationship between personality traits and academic stress?” The research sample comprised 539 university students from the faculties of education (mean age = 22.8, SD = 6.53), of whom 57 were male (mean age = 26.4, SD = 9.09) and 482 female (mean age = 22.4, SD = 6.03). The research method included the application of two questionnaires. The Academic Stress Inventory (ASI, Novotný &amp; Křeménková) is a new 17-item questionnaire, which uses 4 subscales (Stress related to study requirements; Work/Life balance; Organizational and social aspects of study; Expectation of good performance) on a 5-point Likert scale to identify the degree of experienced academic stress. The ten item personality measure (TIPI; Gosling, Rentfrow, &amp; Swann, 2003) is a 10-item scale using a 7-point Likert scale to measure the basic personality traits (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, emotional stability) based on the Big Five concept. The data were analysed in SPSS 21 using descriptive statistics calculation, Pearson correlation analysis, calculation of age-adjusted standardized scores (standardized linear regression residues), t-tests, and linear regression analysis. The study was conducted in compliance with applicable ethical principles. According to the standardized “z” scores of all age-adjusted variables, the results showed that personality traits were particularly associated with stress related to study requirements (Adj. R2 = 0.199); in the other dimensions of academic stress the effect of personality traits is negligible (Adj. R2 = 0.026 – 0.08). The regression models were strongly affected by the predictors of emotional stability and conscientiousness, and less strongly affected by gender, extraversion, and openness to experience.

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

EDULEARN20 Proceedings

ISBN

978-84-09-17979-4

ISSN

2340-1117

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Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

3634-3642

Publisher name

IATED Academy

Place of publication

Valencia

Event location

Palma de Mallorca

Event date

Jul 6, 2020

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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