Recieved: 07/14/2024
Accepted: 10/05/2024
Published: 12/02/2024
Keywords: stress; academic stress; examination stress; psychological well-being; academic success; psychological resources
p.: 148-160
DOI: 10.11621/npj.2024.0410
Available online: 02.12.2024
Fomina, T.G., Filippova, E.V., Burmistrova-Savenkova, A.V., Morosanova, V.I.. Stress in the Educational Environment and its Impact on Academic Success and Psychological Wellbeing of Students. // National Psychological Journal 2024. 4. p.148-160. doi: 10.11621/npj.2024.0410
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CopyBackground. Increasing stress and mental health disorders in modern students lead to a decrease in their life quality, academic performance, and psychological wellbeing. In turn, these phenomena may serve as the negative prognostic factors with regard to professional self-determination and future career. It is necessary to summarise the theoretical and empirical studies in order to analyse the influence of stress in the educational environment on the academic success and psychological wellbeing of students.
Objective. The research analyses modern approaches to studying the stress factors in academic environment as well as the mechanisms of its influence on the academic performance and psychological wellbeing of students in modern conditions of educational system development. An additional task was to highlight promising areas for studying the psychological resources of academic performance and for maintaining psychological wellbeing under conditions of academic stress.
Methods. Searching for articles on the topic was carried out by means of Google Scholar, Science Direct, Consensus, PubMed, Research Gate, etc. using the keywords “educational stress”, “academic stress”, “exams”, “student health”, “student well-being”, «stress management».
Results. The article considers the sources, factors, and forms of academic stress. It is substantiated that the main cause of stress is the lack of students’ resources to meet the requirements of their educational environment. The research analysis has revealed a diverse negative impact that academic stress has on the students’ psychological wellbeing and established its multidirectional effects on academic performance. Among the psychological resources for overcoming academic stress, a wide range of characteristics is considered, with a special focus made on the conscious self-regulation as a meta-tool for actualisation and mobilisation.
Conclusions. The presented review allows to conclude that the factors, mechanisms, and consequences of academic stress have not been sufficiently studied to date. It is necessary to organise comprehensive studies to identify and describe the stress loads on the students at different levels of education. The study of psychological resources that ensure the resistance of schoolchildren and students to stressful influences will allow for developing the effective technologies of psychological support to provide a high quality of life for modern youth.
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Fomina, T.G., Filippova, E.V., Burmistrova-Savenkova, A.V., Morosanova, V.I.. Stress in the Educational Environment and its Impact on Academic Success and Psychological Wellbeing of Students. // National Psychological Journal 2024. 4. p.148-160. doi: 10.11621/npj.2024.0410
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