The mediating role of academic enthusiasm in the relationship between perfectionism and personality traits with academic stress
Subject Areas : Educational Sciencefateme pahlevanzadeh 1 , mahboobeh khanshan 2 , Mohammadreza Tamannaeifar 3
1 - Department of Psychology. Faculty of Humanities. Kashan University. Kashan Iran
2 - Department of Psychology. Faculty of Humanities. Kashan University. Kashan Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran.
Keywords: academic stress, perfectionism, personality traits, academic enthusiasm., Second high school,
Abstract :
According to various researches, students suffer a lot of stress during their studies. Academic stress, if intensified or continued, causes problems in the field of mental health and well-being. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the factors affecting academic stress. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of explaining academic stress based on perfectionism and personality traits with the mediation of academic enthusiasm.The current research was of a descriptive-correlation type. The statistical population of the research included all 6470 male and female secondary school students of Kashan city. 400 students (200 boys and 200 girls) were selected by cluster sampling method and were administered the Godzilla Academic Stress Questionnaire (SLSI), the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Questionnaire (MPS), the Neo Personality Personality Questionnaire (NEO-FFI) and the questionnaire Fredericks et al (AES) responded.The evaluation of the proposed model was done using structural equation modeling. The results showed that the proposed model has an acceptable fit. Also, the results showed that there is a significant relationship between perfectionism, personality traits and academic enthusiasm with academic stress. In addition, the results of the path analysis showed that academic enthusiasm plays a mediating role in the relationship between perfectionism and openness to experience with academic stress. The findings of the present research have practical implications for educational psychologists and school counselors for preventive educational interventions to control and prevent academic stress of students
