SynthesisChild psychiatry and human development2020
Academic Stress in the Final Years of School: A Systematic Literature Review.
Synthesis in Child psychiatry and human development, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
44 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Spectrum of mental health among students: A scientometric analysis of 20 years of research on depression and anxiety.Medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Academic Stress Interventions in High Schools: A Systematic Literature Review.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Pooled it
- Depressive Symptoms Among Children and Adolescents in China During the Coronavirus Disease-19 Epidemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Mediating effects of sleep on mental health in older adolescents: Findings from the Burn 2 Learn randomized controlled trial.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2023Trial
- Randomised Controlled Trial of Study Without Stress: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Program to Reduce Stress in Students in the Final Year of High School.Child psychiatry and human development · 2021Trial
- Targeting Self-Oriented Perfectionism Through a School-Based CBT-Informed Program Integrating Excellencism: A Pilot Study in Final-Year High School Girls.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Relationship Between Perceived Stress and Anxiety in High School Senior Students: The Mediating Role of Social Support and the Moderating Influence of Lifestyle.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Impact of assistive tool-based training on anxiety, mental focus, and self-confidence among university swimming students.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Psychometric properties of the short Indonesian version of the Academic Stress Scale and descriptive analysis of academic-related stress among adolescent students.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Serial mediation pathways linking attachment security to loneliness: the role of self-disclosure quality and perceived social support among college students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Analysis of the relationship between mathematical learning stress and neuroendocrine response based on causal modeling.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Associations between perceived stress, sleep quality, and suicidal ideation among Chinese graduating-grade secondary school students: a multi-method study of the moderating role of physical exercise.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Academic expectations stress, its associations with symptoms of depression and anxiety, and preliminary exploration of suicidality: results from a National Youth Mental Health Survey in Singapore.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Identifying foreign language learning burnout: latent profiles, cutoff points, and an explainable web-based calculator.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Self-Regulation as a Mediator and Moderator Between School Stress and School Well-Being: A Multilevel Study.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- When Attempts to Help Backfire: Psychosocial Interventions that May Inadvertently Prolong Anxiety Among Youth.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Review
- Sleep quality is associated with stress in secondary school students.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Perceived Social Support from Parents, Teachers, and Friends as Predictors of Test Anxiety in Chinese Final-Year High School Students: The Mediating Role of Academic Buoyancy.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Athletic Trainers' Observations of Social Determinants of Health in the Secondary School Setting: A Card Study.Journal of athletic training · 2025Observational
- Buddha image meditation is a potent predictor for mental health outcomes: A cross-sectional study among Thai high-school students.PloS one · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Heightened academic stress in the final years of schooling is a common concern, yet little is known about how stress changes over time and what individual, school and family factors are associated with distress. We conducted a systematic review to examine the nature of distress in students in their final two years of secondary school. Sixty studies were eligible for inclusion. The main findings indicated severity of distress differed across the 17 countries sampled and measures used. There was some consistencies suggesting about 1 in 6 students experienced excessive distress. Female gender and anxiety proneness were consistently associated with increased distress, and freedom from negative cognitions with reduced distress. There was some evidence that individual characteristics (perfectionism, avoidance, coping, self-efficacy, resilience), lifestyle (sleep, homework), school, family and peer connectedness were associated with distress. Overall at-risk students can be predicted by theoretical models of anxiety and distress targeted with psychological interventions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
32180075What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.