Abstract
Purpose The study focuses on academic stress among the students due to insufficient efforts and intrapersonal conflicts amid the COVID-19 situation. The purpose of this study is to measure the mediating role of academic stress between life dissatisfaction and adequate steps and intrapersonal conflicts. Design/methodology/approach The researcher had surveyed 729 students from the two states, including Haryana and Punjab and 716 responses were used for analysis. These respondents were approached in April–May 2020 to explore the impact of COVID-19. The questionnaire was prepared with the help of Google form, including 29 questions. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM) were used to validate the research model and for testing the hypothesis. Findings The findings indicate that intra-personal conflict and insufficient efforts have a significant positive relation with academic stress. Also, intrapersonal conflict and insufficient efforts have a significant positive relation with life dissatisfaction. It has been reported that academic stress mediates the relationship between life dissatisfaction and intra-personal conflict. The results also reveal that academic stress is positively and significantly associated with life dissatisfaction. Originality/value This is one of the few studies that explored the mediating role of academic stress between life dissatisfaction and insufficient efforts and intrapersonal conflicts.
Highlights
In today’s world, students have to compete at every step-in academic resulting in a lot of stress
The results reveal that academic stress is positively and significantly associated with life dissatisfaction
The findings demonstrate that academic stress is positively correlated with insufficient efforts (r = 0.716, p < 0.001), intra-personal conflicts (r = 0.691, p < 0.001) and life dissatisfaction (r = 0.513, p < 0.001)
Summary
In today’s world, students have to compete at every step-in academic resulting in a lot of stress. This growing academic pressure has resulted in “Academic stress.”. Chao (2012) shares that stress in university students can be a cumulative emotion, resulting due to academic uncertainty of the future, doubting self, difficulties in forming interpersonal- social relationships and many other. The full terms of this licence maybe seen at http:// creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode
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