The Relationship between stress factors and academic achievement in ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDENTS AT University of Quintana Roo

1. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
STRESS FACTORS AND ACADEMIC
ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGLISH
LANGUAGE STUDENTS AT
UNIVERSITY OF QUINTANA ROO

2. METHOD
BY
• ESTEPHANIA ZACARIAS
• DELMY PAT

3. This section explains the methodological
details used to implement this descriptive
correlational study. Specifically,
presented here are the general
perspective and context of the study, an
overview of the participants, a
description of the instruments and
procedures used in data collection, and
an explanation of data analysis strategies
for each research question.
DESCRIPTIVE
CORRELATIONAL
NATURE OF
RESEARCH

4. PARTICIPANTS
• Students of English Language
Major at the University of
Quintana Roo who range in age
from 16 to 40
• Five groups of different
semester which will be of 2, 4,
6, 8 and 10 semester.

5. INSTRUMENTS
• Student-life Stress Inventory (SSI)
(Gadzella, 1991) applied to
measure college student stress.
Participants respond to a five-point
scale using 1 = never, 2 = seldom,
3 = occasionally, 4 = often, and 5 =
most of the time.
• Interviews to ten students which
will be chosen of the different five
semester.
• Academic records of the
participants will be used to
compare them with their stress
level.

6. PROCEDURE
• To carry out this research, it will be measure the
level of stress that English language students have
applying surveys and interviews to them.
• An exhaustive bibliographic review of books and
Internet webpages will be make.
• Participation in this study was strictly voluntary.