Online learning stress and Chinese college students' academic coping during COVID-19: The role of academic hope and academic self-efficacy

Online learning stress and Chinese college students' academic coping during COVID-19: The role of academic hope and academic self-efficacy

• Wong, Wai Lap Lance The University of Hong Kong
• Yuen, Ka Wai Anna The University of Hong Kong

Journal of Psychology, 157(2), 95-120, 2023

Taylor & Francis

2023

• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QG Adult, Lifelong & Continuing Education
    • QGE Distance Education
• A Human Growth & Development
  • AC Socialization, Self-concept, Self-esteem, Identity, Affective, Emotional, Psycho-social & Moral Development

COVID-19 Hope Online Learning self-efficacy Stress and Coping

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

Colleges around the world have adopted emergency online learning to continue with teaching and learning activities during COVID-19. Existing research has indicated that this teaching mode is perceived negatively by many college students. The difficulty students encounter in emergency online learning can adversely affect their mental health and academic performance. To shed further light on how emergency online learning may have impeded college students' academic functioning and adjustment, this study examined the association between online learning stress and academic coping and the mediating roles of academic self-efficacy and academic hope. It was conducted in early 2021, a year after the outbreak of the pandemic. Ninety-nine Chinese college students in Hong Kong were recruited and they completed an online questionnaire for this study. Results showed that online learning stress was negatively associated with approach academic coping and social support seeking, and the associations were mediated by academic hope. On the other hand, online learning stress was positively associated with avoidance academic coping, which was not mediated by academic hope. The mediation effects of academic self-efficacy were all non-significant. In sum, college students used more passive and maladaptive coping to handle academic problems when they experienced more online learning stress, and this was partly explained by lower levels of academic hope. Copyright © 2023 Taylor & Francis.

• English

Journal Articles

• 00223980

• 10.1080/00223980.2022.2148087

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/8643c1c9

2024-05-17