Tools for Measuring Academic Stress in Students Working on Their Thesis

Abstract

This study aims to develop and test the validity and reliability of academic stress measurement tools in students working on thesis, referring to the stress and coping theory from Lazarus & Folkman. This measuring tool consists of 10 items designed to evaluate various aspects of academic stress experienced by students during the thesis preparation process. A total of 150 respondents who are working on their thesis participated in this study. The results of the analysis showed that no items were declared disqualified based on the discrimination test, which indicates that all items were able to distinguish stress levels well among respondents. In addition, 8 out of 10 items showed the uniqueness of the measurement relevant to the characteristics of students working on the thesis, confirming that this measurement tool can be relied on to understand and identify specific academic stress in the context of thesis writing.