Mediating Effects of Academic Stress between Resilience and Academic Achievement: On the University Students majoring in Piano and Vocal Music

Year 2025, Volume: 12 Issue: 1, 69 - 83

Du Baiyan , Xie Qun , Young Chun Ko

https://doi.org/10.17275/per.25.4.12.1

Abstract

This study finds out the structural relationship among resilience, academic stress, and academic achievement for university students majoring in piano and vocal music and verifies the mediating effect on academic stress between resilience and academic achievement. The subjects of this study are 608 students majoring in piano and vocal music at two universities in Sichuan, China. The SPSS 25 program is used to analyse the reliability and mean difference of resilience and academic stress, and the program is used to analyse the correlation and regression of resilience, academic stress, and academic achievement. In the results of this study, resilience has an explanatory power of about 28% for academic stress and has a negative (-) effect on academic stress. Resilience shows an explanatory power of about 22% for academic achievement and has a positive (+) effect on academic achievement. The explanatory power of resilience, an independent variable, and academic stress, parameter, on academic achievement at the same time is found to be about 22%. At this time, resilience has a positive effect on academic achievement, but academic stress has a negative effect on academic achievement. And academic stress partially mediates the effect of resilience on academic achievement. As can be seen from the partial mediating effect of academic stress between resilience and academic achievement, the higher the student's resilience, the lower the academic stress, which will improve the academic achievement of college students majoring in piano and vocal music. In addition, academic achievement can be improved when increasing the resilience of college students majoring in piano and vocal music. Therefore, in order to further improve the academic achievement of students majoring in piano and vocal music, a method of increasing the resilience of students is required. In future studies related to academic achievement of university students majoring in piano and vocal music, it is necessary to further study the structural relationship of academic achievement according to learning motivation and goal orientation.

Keywords

academic stress, academic achievement, resilience, mediating effect, piano and vocal major university student

Ethical Statement

In this study, a questionnaire and academic achievement were surveyed on 700 students majoring piano, and vocal music at two representative universities in Sichuan Province, China, from September 10 to September 19, 2022. This survey was conducted by Wenjuanxing, a Chinese professional survey company. And this company held to ethical standards.

Supporting Institution

This study was supported by research funds from Sehan University in Korea, 2024.

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