Open AccessTrends in Post-Secondary Student Stress: A Pan-Canadian Study
Author(s) -
Brooke Linden,
Heather Stuart,
Amy Ecclestone
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
the canadian journal of psychiatry/canadian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.68
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1497-0015
pISSN - 0706-7437
DOI - 10.1177/07067437221111365
Subject(s) - stressor , context (archaeology) , psychology , distress , stress (linguistics) , clinical psychology , covid-19 , medicine , demography , geography , linguistics , philosophy , disease , archaeology , sociology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Previous research has evaluated the sources of post-secondary student stress, but has failed to explore whether stressors fluctuate over time. The purpose of this research was to use the Post-Secondary Student Stressors Index to examine whether stressors changed significantly and meaningfully over the course of an academic year. Due to the timing of data collection, results also provide context around students' experiences of stress during the COVID-19 pandemic.