Level of academic stress among e-learning student-athletes
Vincent A. Parnabas1, Julinamary Parnabas2, Antoinette Mary Parnabas3.
Academic stress refers to the impact that educational organizations may
produce on their students by imposing too many tasks with great competition
from other students. Lower academic stress has been linked to higher
performance in studies through e-learning. The aim of this research was
to identify and compare the level of academic stress among different types
of e-learning users among student-athletes’ such as Frequent, Partial and
Rare-user. The 34 items of Academic Stress assessing seven factors were used
to collect data. One hundred and twenty students were selected to participate
in this study. The results showed that the Group Stress (xÌ…=18.1146) and Peer
Stress (xÌ… =14.4036) were higher in studying among the Frequent e-learning
users. It was identifi ed that Time Management Stress (xÌ… =14.1621) was
higher among the Partial e-learning users. The Rare e-learner users’ stress
level was higher in Teachers Stress (xÌ… =17.3397), Result Stress (xÌ… =19.1528),
Test Stress (xÌ… =18.3346) and Self-infl icted Stress (xÌ… =15.1019). The fi ndings
in this study provide a useful insight to educators to motivate the rare-users
to engage in e-learning in order to reduce their academic stress, since high
level of academic stress is associated with poor academic achievement.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
- Institut Pendidikan Guru Jitra, Malaysia
- Hospital Taiping, Malaysia
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