Academic Stress, Anxiety, Time Management, and Leisure Satisfaction Flashcards

A collection of vocabulary terms and definitions derived from the research paper on academic stress, anxiety, time management, and leisure satisfaction among college students.

Academic Stressors

The student's perception of the extensive knowledge base required and the perception of an inadequate time to develop it.

Leisure Satisfaction

The positive feeling of contentment one perceives as a result of meeting personal needs through leisure activities, as defined by Seigenthaler ($1997$).

Time Management

Defined by Lay and Schouwenburg ($1993$) as clusters of behavior that are deemed to facilitate productivity and alleviate stress.

Gadzella's Student-life Stress Inventory (SLSI)

An instrument consisting of $51$ items used to assess five categories of academic stressors and four categories of reactions to stressors.

SLSI Stressor Categories

The five categories of stressors measured: frustrations, conflicts, pressures, changes, and self-imposed.

SLSI Reaction Categories

The four categories of reactions to stressors measured: physiological, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive.

Beard and Ragheb's Leisure Satisfaction Measurement (LSM)

A $51$-item instrument that assesses six leisure satisfaction components: psychological, educational, social, relaxation, physiological, and aesthetic-environmental rewards.

Macan et al. Time Management Behaviors (TMB) scale

A $46$-item instrument assessed on a $5$-point scale ($1$-seldom true to $5$-very often true) containing four subscales to evaluate time management skills.

Perceived Control of Time

A TMB subscale representing the belief that one can affect how time is spent.

Setting Goals and Priorities

A TMB subscale involving goal setting and the prioritizing of objectives to reach those goals.

Mechanics of Time Management

A TMB subscale focused on the behaviors of planning and scheduling.

Preference of Organization

A TMB subscale measuring an individual's organizational approach to a project or workplace.

Trait Anxiety

Individual differences in anxiety as a personality trait, implying a disposition to respond to stressful situations with varying amounts of state anxiety.

State Anxiety

Anxiety experienced as a temporary emotional state rather than a personality trait.

Leisure Satisfaction Buffer

The positive feeling of contentment that helps reduce perceived stress; in this study, it was found to have a weaker buffering effect on academic stress than time management behaviors.

Strategic Studying

One of the productive study methods identified by Entwistle and Ramsden ($1983$), characterized by planning and organized study tasks.

Physiological Reactions to Stress

Physical indicators of stress such as sweating, stuttering, and headaches; females in the study reported significantly higher levels than males.

Cognitive Reactions to Stress

Responses that involve problem-solving and thinking about upcoming stressful situations, which were found to increase with effective time management.

Trait Anxiety (Study Predictor)

Identified through regression analysis as the strongest predictor of academic stressors among college students in this study.

Sample Population Statistics

The study utilized a sample of $249$ full-time undergraduates with an average age of $21$ years ($SD = 2.0$), of which $74.6\%$ were females.