Concordance (or Discordance) Between Students and Staff/Faculty Perceptions of Student Stress in Science
The purpose of this study was to explore the experience and management of stress in science students and to evaluate concordance with faculty/staff members’ appraisal of student stress. A survey was completed by 308 students and by 40 staff and faculty members. Students’ stress levels were high but...
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Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
2021-09-01
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| author | A. Dana Ménard Kendall Soucie Sira Jaffri Chris Houser Dora Cavallo-Medved |
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The purpose of this study was to explore the experience and management of stress in science students and to evaluate concordance with faculty/staff members’ appraisal of student stress. A survey was completed by 308 students and by 40 staff and faculty members. Students’ stress levels were high but there were no differences based on demographic groups. Students’ top stressors included workload, grades, career, time management, and anxiety. Faculty and staff members accurately estimated the level of undergraduate student stress but underestimated graduate student stress. They also demonstrated a good understanding of the role of specific academic stressors, but consistently overestimated the contribution of stress from other sources. Students described using a variety of different coping strategies, including social support, self-care, hobbies, and problem-solving.
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| spelling | doaj.art-14dfe735aada465294c970d3e3f999ba2023-12-20T17:00:10ZengSociety for Teaching and Learning in Higher EducationCanadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning1918-29022021-09-0112110.5206/cjsotlrcacea.2021.1.10810Concordance (or Discordance) Between Students and Staff/Faculty Perceptions of Student Stress in ScienceA. Dana Ménard0Kendall Soucie1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1645-2509Sira Jaffri2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1765-1021Chris Houser3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7880-7619Dora Cavallo-Medved4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8838-5544University of WindsorUniversity of WindsorUniversity of WindsorUniversity of WindsorUniversity of Windsor The purpose of this study was to explore the experience and management of stress in science students and to evaluate concordance with faculty/staff members’ appraisal of student stress. A survey was completed by 308 students and by 40 staff and faculty members. Students’ stress levels were high but there were no differences based on demographic groups. Students’ top stressors included workload, grades, career, time management, and anxiety. Faculty and staff members accurately estimated the level of undergraduate student stress but underestimated graduate student stress. They also demonstrated a good understanding of the role of specific academic stressors, but consistently overestimated the contribution of stress from other sources. Students described using a variety of different coping strategies, including social support, self-care, hobbies, and problem-solving. https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/cjsotl_rcacea/article/view/10810student stressleaky pipelinecoping strategiesfaculty and staff |
| spellingShingle | A. Dana Ménard Kendall Soucie Sira Jaffri Chris Houser Dora Cavallo-Medved Concordance (or Discordance) Between Students and Staff/Faculty Perceptions of Student Stress in Science Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning student stress leaky pipeline coping strategies faculty and staff |
| title | Concordance (or Discordance) Between Students and Staff/Faculty Perceptions of Student Stress in Science |
| title_full | Concordance (or Discordance) Between Students and Staff/Faculty Perceptions of Student Stress in Science |
| title_fullStr | Concordance (or Discordance) Between Students and Staff/Faculty Perceptions of Student Stress in Science |
| title_full_unstemmed | Concordance (or Discordance) Between Students and Staff/Faculty Perceptions of Student Stress in Science |
| title_short | Concordance (or Discordance) Between Students and Staff/Faculty Perceptions of Student Stress in Science |
| title_sort | concordance or discordance between students and staff faculty perceptions of student stress in science |
| topic | student stress leaky pipeline coping strategies faculty and staff |
| url | https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/cjsotl_rcacea/article/view/10810 |
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