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Peer reviewedReed, Bruce D. – Educational Management & Administration, 1985
Challenges popular conceptions of stress as a negative condition, arguing that reasonable amounts of stress are necessary and desirable. Explains how stress-causing relationships between individuals and their environments can be perceived positively as relationships between role-occupying persons and the systems in which those roles have vital…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attitudes, Group Dynamics, Group Experience
Direct linkAmey, Marilyn J. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1990
Although college administrators at every level experience some role conflict or ambiguity while acclimating to new jobs, if the dissonance is unresolved, it can lead to lower job satisfaction and self-confidence, higher tension and psychological strain, and greater feelings of futility and anxiety. Strategies for resolution are individual but have…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Anxiety, College Administration, Expectation
Peer reviewedWan, Teh-yuan; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1992
A study of 412 foreign graduate students investigated their (1) perceptions of the stressfulness of role demands and (2) abilities to cope with those demands. Results indicated students associated English language skills and cultural distance with stresses and language, academic, and problem-solving skills with coping capacity. Implications for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Coping, English (Second Language)
