Mediated effect of self-efficacy between academic stress and college adjustment

Abstract

Stress could cause maladjustment in individual or social life, and affect life satisfaction negatively. This study aims to investigate the mediated effect of self-efficacy between stress and school adjustment of college students in Korea. This study adapted causal research method, using stress as an independent variable and the school adjustment as the dependent variable. Self-efficacy was used as mediating variable between the previous two variables. The subjects of this study were 1,117 college students in a university located in a provincial area of Korea. For self-efficacy, the 24 question, for stress, the 50 question and for adjustment, the 30 question survey were used for 4-point Likert-type scales. There were significant correlations among academic self-efficacy, stress and adjustment (p