Revisiting the relation between academic buoyancy and coping: a network analysis

  • Academic buoyancy, the capacity to respond to minor academic adversities, is expected to enable students to effectively deal with failure. Prior research, however, has shown negligible relations between buoyancy and coping, but only considered a limited set of coping strategies. In addition, academic buoyancy and effective coping are expected to positively relate to higher academic achievement. However, studies examining how coping could mediate relations from academic buoyancy to achievement are lacking. In the present study (N = 535 upper secondary students, mean age 16.4 years), we examined relations between students’ buoyancy, coping with an examination failure, and academic achievement. We considered an extensive set of nine coping strategies (five adaptive, four maladaptive) and used a novel network analysis, alongside traditional analytic approaches (correlation, structural equation modelling). Buoyancy and coping were assessed with self-report, and achievement from anAcademic buoyancy, the capacity to respond to minor academic adversities, is expected to enable students to effectively deal with failure. Prior research, however, has shown negligible relations between buoyancy and coping, but only considered a limited set of coping strategies. In addition, academic buoyancy and effective coping are expected to positively relate to higher academic achievement. However, studies examining how coping could mediate relations from academic buoyancy to achievement are lacking. In the present study (N = 535 upper secondary students, mean age 16.4 years), we examined relations between students’ buoyancy, coping with an examination failure, and academic achievement. We considered an extensive set of nine coping strategies (five adaptive, four maladaptive) and used a novel network analysis, alongside traditional analytic approaches (correlation, structural equation modelling). Buoyancy and coping were assessed with self-report, and achievement from an end-of-year examination. Buoyancy was positively related with adaptive, and negatively with maladaptive, coping strategies both in structural equation modeling and in the network analysis. In addition, structural equation modeling showed positive and negative indirect relations between buoyancy and achievement that were mediated by adaptive coping strategies. Our findings suggest that buoyancy interventions to enhance adaptive, and reduce maladaptive, coping strategies could be suitable ways to help students overcome examination failure.show moreshow less

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Author:David W. Putwain, Martin DaumillerORCiDGND, Tahrim Hussain, Reinhard Pekrun
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1134120
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/113412
ISSN:0361-476XOPAC
Parent Title (English):Contemporary Educational Psychology
Publisher:Elsevier BV
Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2024
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2024/06/08
Volume:78
First Page:102283
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2024.102283
Institutes:Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Psychologie
Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Psychologie / Lehrstuhl für Psychologie
Dewey Decimal Classification:1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie
Licence (German):License LogoCC-BY 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung (mit Print on Demand)