The mediation effects of achievement motivation and locus of control between academic stress and life satisfaction in undergraduate students

This study investigated the mediation effect of locus of control and achievement motivation between academic stress and life satisfaction. A total of 307 undergraduate students recruited from a Hispanic Serving Institution in South Texas participated in the study. In the frame of the study, two medi...

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Published in:British journal of guidance & counselling 2018-07, Vol.46 (4), p.375-384
Main Authors: Karaman, Mehmet A., Nelson, Kristina M., Cavazos Vela, Javier
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
academic stress
achievement motivation
Achievement Need
Anxiety
Colleges
Hispanic American Students
Life Satisfaction
Locus of Control
Questionnaires
Undergraduate Students
Universities
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Summary:This study investigated the mediation effect of locus of control and achievement motivation between academic stress and life satisfaction. A total of 307 undergraduate students recruited from a Hispanic Serving Institution in South Texas participated in the study. In the frame of the study, two mediation models were tested by utilising PROCESS Procedure for SPSS (Hayes, 2013. Introduction to mediation, moderation, and conditional process analysis: A regression-based approach. New York, NY: Guilford Press). The results indicated that bivariate correlations among study variables ranged from −.24 to .32. The overall composite indicated that academic stress contributed to 6% of the variance in life satisfaction (p 
ISSN:0306-9885
1469-3534
DOI:10.1080/03069885.2017.1346233