Diskuze v psychologii 2021, 3(1):1-8 | DOI: 10.5507/dvp.2021.005

Academic stress - review study

Eva Sedláková
Ústav pedagogiky a sociálních studií, PdF UP, Žižkovo náměstí 5, 779 00 Olomouc, Česká republika

Academic stress is a relatively new term. This term follows from the mechanical device of the general stress, but this term (academic stress) be connected to specific surroundings. Academic stress is related to the specific group of people. The main goal of this summarizing study is introduce the term academic stress and explain its importance in relation with education and company. This contribution will be described the instruments of measuring of academic stress and we focused this term with the group of students of university, not to the group of academic worker. The sources of stress seemed like the same for both of groups (time stress, pressure to the performance), but each of these groups have their own specifics and we must to used to different instruments. The another intention of this summarizing study is described the most frequent sources of student's academic stress and also we introduce the main factors, which have infuence with the academic stress.

Keywords: academic stress, student, tools, measure

Received: June 15, 2020; Revised: December 16, 2020; Accepted: September 8, 2021; Prepublished online: September 16, 2021; Published: November 1, 2021  Show citation

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