Abstract
The influence of personality factors, school achievement goals, academic efficacy, and stressload of serious problems on final grades was studied by giving a questionnaire, The Perceived Stress and Control Assessment Scale, to 915 Swedish high school students. A new measure, Stressload Index, was created by extending the Control-Stress Index. Structural Equation Modeling analysis revealed that the variance in final grades was explained by four predictors, namely academic efficacy, stressload of serious problems, neuroticism, and extraversion, to 13%, academic efficacy contributing most. The effect of stressload of serious problems was shown to be negative. The influence of extraversion was negative, whereas neuroticism had a positive effect on final grades.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1204-1220 |
| Journal | Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| Early online date | 2021 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Applied Psychology (including Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy)
Free keywords
- academic efficacy
- Adolescent stress
- extraversion
- final grades
- neuroticism
- personality
- school achievement goals