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The life events stress-performance linkage: an exploratory study.

K P De Meuse

    Journal of Human Stress
    |January 1, 1985
    PubMed
    Summary

    High life event stress negatively impacts academic performance. This study found that early semester stress scores predicted lower future classroom performance, with weighting life events not improving prediction accuracy.

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    Area of Science:

    • Psychology
    • Medical Sociology
    • Educational Psychology

    Background:

    • The link between life events, psychological adjustment, and illness is a long-standing concern in medical literature.
    • Management theorists recently proposed a stress-performance linkage related to life events.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To test the proposed life events stress-performance linkage in a university classroom setting.
    • To examine the relationship between experienced life events and subsequent academic performance.

    Main Methods:

    • 159 university students estimated readjustment for 43 life events.
    • Students identified life events experienced in the past year.
    • Weighted and unweighted life event stress scores were correlated with six classroom performance indices.

    Main Results:

    • Measures of stress taken early in the semester were inversely related to future classroom performance.
    • The predictive accuracy of stress scores was not improved by weighting life events.

    Conclusions:

    • The study supports an inverse relationship between life event stress and academic performance.
    • Weighting life events by readjustment value does not enhance the predictive power of stress scores on performance.

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