Research on the Influence of Stress on the Examination Results of Undergraduates

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10.2991/assehr.k.220504.522How to use a DOI?

Keywords

undergraduate students; level of stress; tests; working memory

Abstract

Most of the students are not able to perform well in their exams, and we want to figure out why things happen like this. The study, through experiments, assessed impairments on working memory functionality due to heightened levels of stress. We hypothesized that difficult working memory tasks would elicit a greater stress response in participants with prior chronic stress. Undergraduate college students (N=40) were randomly assigned to one of two different conditions presenting at different levels of difficulty. Participants were asked to complete surveys on their perceived stress levels both from the past month and presently. Participants were then prompted to complete tasks to engage working memory at different levels of difficulty depending on group assignments. The results showed that the more difficult working memory task significantly increased the stress of participants.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wei Zhang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - Research on the Influence of Stress on the Examination Results of Undergraduates
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 2877
EP  - 2881
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.522
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.522
ID  - Zhang2022
ER  -