Page No 49-59
Md. Hassan Jafri
Patna College, Patna
This study examined the relationship between academic stress and academic
engagement of college students. Specifically, the current study was designed to
understand growth mindset and grit as moderators in stress–engagement relationship.
The study was conducted on 220 undergraduate students of commerce and management
streams. Using random sampling approach, data were collected on a standard
questionnaire from both male and female students. Correlations and moderated
regression analyses revealed that stress is debilitating to academic engagement and
both students’ growth mindset and grit countered the effect of stress and moderated
significantly on the stress
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