Abstract
The current COVID-19 crisis forced most educational institutions all over the world to transfer to remote education. As a result, students experience remote learning stress and employ different adaptive coping strategies in order to succeed in their learning. This paper attempted to explore the relationships among remote learning stress, adaptive coping strategies, and academic performance of university students amid the COVID-19 crisis. Employing a correlation research design, this study surveyed a total of 123 college students in Mindanao, Philippines. The data were treated using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that the students have a high level of remote learning stress, great extent of adaptive coping strategies, and average level of academic performance. It was further revealed that remote learning stress significantly influences the academic performance of the students. Thus, to help students to academically succeed in this time of crisis, this paper recommends for contextual measures that will reduce learning stress brought by remote learning.
Highlights
The COVID-19 crisis continues to affect the lives of people worldwide
Considering the problems and complexities encountered by students in remote learning, this paper attempted to explore the relationships among remote learning stress, adaptive coping strategies, and academic performance of university students amid the COVID-19 crisis
One of the interesting consequences of this phenomenon is the interplay of remote learning stress, adaptive coping strategies, and academic performance of the students
Summary
The COVID-19 crisis continues to affect the lives of people worldwide. The education sector is neither spared as it is plagued by different problems and complexities amid the transition to the “new normal” period. Stress is a major issue prevalent among students even in normal circumstances (Babore et al, 2020) It has been reported in past studies Ajmal & Ahmad, 2019; Kwaah & Essilfie, 2017; Silinda & Brubacher, 2016) that stress drawn from remote learning negatively impacts the lives of the students. They revealed stressors such as family problems, overloaded course works, writing researches, poor student support services, and issues in admission process, and financial problems associated to remote learning
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