ACADEMIC STRESS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the relationship between academic stress and psychological wellbeing among undergraduate students of University Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) during COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the table Krejcie and Morgan (1970) this study required a total of 201 samples as study respondents. Perception of Academic Stress Scale (PAS) and Ryff’s Psychological Wellbeing Scale (PWBS) inventory were used to obtain data. Data were analyzed using SPSS 22.0. The results of descriptive analysis showed that the type of academic stress among students is students’ academic self-perception with mean 3.80.  The results of descriptive analysis also showed that the level of psychological wellbeing among students were at a moderate level with 112 respondents (55.7 percent). Next, correlation analysis showed that there was a relationship between academic stress and psychological wellbeing with r=.582, p=0.000<0.01. The implication of this study is students could increase the awareness of their states of mental and physical. Therefore, students can make good decision making and have ability to solve personal as well as interpersonal problems.