Start Date
October 2024
End Date
October 2024
Location
Beacom Hall Room 309
Submission Type
Competitive Paper
Track
Pedagogy
Abstract
In assessments of wellbeing, accounting students report experiencing significant amounts of stress. Bjornsen et al (2024) describe a wellbeing program integrated into the curriculum of a small accounting program of a university in the American Midwest. The authors note several areas of concern based on student responses to the wellbeing assessment portion of the program. In particular, accounting students noted that they experience a lot of stress. We extended the Bjornsen et al assessment by including demographic data to determine whether the areas of concern varied by student groups. Identifying the student groups most at risk would allow us to target students most in need. In this study we focused on stress. We regress stress against gender, transfer status, distance from home, and status as an international student. We also include several control variables based on literature dealing with college student stress. Finding indicate that stress reported by our students is related to gender (female students experience more), status as an international student (international students experience less) and on several control variables.
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Predictors of Stress Among Accounting Students
Beacom Hall Room 309
In assessments of wellbeing, accounting students report experiencing significant amounts of stress. Bjornsen et al (2024) describe a wellbeing program integrated into the curriculum of a small accounting program of a university in the American Midwest. The authors note several areas of concern based on student responses to the wellbeing assessment portion of the program. In particular, accounting students noted that they experience a lot of stress. We extended the Bjornsen et al assessment by including demographic data to determine whether the areas of concern varied by student groups. Identifying the student groups most at risk would allow us to target students most in need. In this study we focused on stress. We regress stress against gender, transfer status, distance from home, and status as an international student. We also include several control variables based on literature dealing with college student stress. Finding indicate that stress reported by our students is related to gender (female students experience more), status as an international student (international students experience less) and on several control variables.
