Exploring adolescent academic stress in the digital and urban age: a mixed-methods study from CIT to checklist validation.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In recent decades, middle and high school students have been experiencing increasing levels of academic stress. The reason may be rapid urbanization and the widespread use of the Internet, which have expanded students' environments from the confines of family and school to the open community and cyber world. Greater exposure to academic information and social interactions may contribute to heightened stress levels. However, the underlying mechanisms remain underexplored. Furthermore, the current taxonomy of academic stress conflates self-stress with stress arising from social events, resulting in a misalignment between theoretical frameworks and measurement scales.

Materials and methods

The mixed-methods study explored stressful academic events among adolescents

SUBMITTER: Wang R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12646907 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature