Stress and the higher education student: a critical review of the literature

By David Robotham, C. Julian. 2006

459 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Andrew Denovan
2. A. Macaskill
3. A. Pitt
4. G. Tapia
5. F. Oprescu
6. Marion Gray
7. T. Harland
8. J. Tan

In General Health Professions

1. Andrew Denovan
2. A. Macaskill
3. A. Pitt
4. G. Tapia
5. F. Oprescu
6. Marion Gray
7. Annamari Heikkilä
8. Kirsti Lonka

In Social Psychology

1. Andrew Denovan
2. Kirsti Lonka
3. A. Macaskill
4. A. Pitt
5. G. Tapia
6. F. Oprescu
7. Marion Gray
8. Annamari Heikkilä

Citations in the corpus

• Interrelations among university students’ approaches to learning, regulation of learning, and cognitive and attributional strategies: a person oriented approach (2011, background): “There has been growing interest in the stress experienced by students in higher education ( Robotham and Julian 2006; Law 2007; Schaufeli et al. 2002; Lonka et al. 2008).”
• Stress and Subjective Well-Being Among First Year UK Undergraduate Students (2016, unknown): “Staff/student ratios have increased and there are more demands on staff time making personal support less obtainable (Robotham and Julian 2006).”
• An assessment arms race and its fallout: high-stakes grading and the case for slow scholarship (2015, background): “Students had become what Rogers (1994) once described as ‘tourists in the classroom’ (9), as they moved from one package of knowledge to the next.”
• Student Part-Time Employment: Characteristics and Consequences. (2012, background): “There has been a growth in interest in the quality of students’ university lives and their well-being, in particular the stress experienced by students ( Robotham and Julian, 2006”
• An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Stress and Coping in First Year Undergraduates. (2013, background): “There are now more students aiming to enter an increasingly competitive job market, which exacerbates the pressure to achieve a respectable degree (Robotham & Julian, 2006).”
• Stress, resilience and leisure coping among university students: applying the broaden-and-build theory (2017, background): “These stressors add to those traditionally associated with university study such as course-work deadlines and examinations (e.g. Robotham & Julian, 2006).”
• An exploratory study of students’ weekly stress levels and sources of stress during the semester (2018, background): “For example, in the United Kingdom, the government has steadily decreased funding for students while widening participation in university education, thus increasing the financial pressures on students (Robotham and Julian, 2006).”
• A study to investigate the prevalence of social anxiety in a sample of higher education students in the United Kingdom (2009, background): “This is concerning because it is also known that stress is associated with lower levels of achievement in education (Robotham & Julian, 2006).”
• Academic expectations as sources of stress in Asian students (2011, background): “It is caused by fear and the body’s reaction to that fear, and is the instinctive preparation for ‘fight’ or ‘flight’ ( Robotham and Julian 2006 ).”
• The Slow Professor (2013, background): “It is well-documented that changes in academic work have created significant stress among academic teachers (Catano, Francis, Haines, Kirpalani, Shannon, Stringer, & Lozanksi, 2007; Miller, Buckholdt & Shaw, 2008), and students (Dabney, 1995; Brown & Ralph 1999; Rowbotham and Julian 2006), but what ”
• The impact of stress on students in secondary school and higher education (2019, unknown): “Previous research indicates that self-reported stress is associated with the presentation of anxious states and lower well-being (Carter, Garber, Ciesla, & Cole, 2006; Kessler, 1997; Robotham & Julian, 2006).”