Financial Stress, Student’s Positivity and their Academic Achievement: Mediating Role of Family Conflicts

Abstract

The main aim of present study is to test the associations between Financial stress, Student’s positivity and their academic achievement and family conflicts. Moreover, it also aimed to test the role of family conflicts as a mediator between financial stress and student’s positivity and their academic achievement. Our sample comprised of 259 students using purposive convenient sampling technique. For data collection we used Financial Stress Scale, Positivity Scale, Brief Family Relationship Scale and Academic Achievement was measured by their Grades in School, College and University. Findings indicate that there is significant and negative relationship between financial stress and student’s positivity and their academic achievement. Whereas results also show that there is significant relationship between financial stress and family conflict but there is negative relationship between family conflict and student’s positivity. Furthermore, family conflicts act as a partial mediator between financial stress and student’s positivity and student’s academic achievement. This study is beneficial in finding ways to enhance the positivity of students in time of economic crisis so that they can deal with negative outcomes of their behaviors.