The mediation effects of achievement motivation and locus of control between academic stress and life satisfaction in undergraduate students. Issue 4 (4th July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Karaman, Mehmet A.; Nelson, Kristina M.; Cavazos Vela, Javier
• Is Part Of: British journal of guidance & counselling. Volume 46:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 375
• Page End: 384
• Publication Date: 2018-07-04
• Subjects: Life satisfaction -- academic stress -- achievement motivation -- locus of control -- undergraduate students; Educational counseling -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Vocational guidance -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 371.4
• DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2017.1346233
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0306-9885

Abstract

ABSTRACT: 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 < .01) among students ( b = −.06), while the mediating effect of locus of control contributed to 10% of the variance in Life Satisfaction ( p < .01) among students ( b = −.4).