| Abstract: | The goal of this study is to predict school performance and psychological distress from three indicators of distress, two personal resources, gender and, from an exploratory variable entitled "anxiety before exams". Data was collected from 374 French Canadian speaking (grade 10) teenagers. They completed questionnaires on psychological stress, depression, loneliness, feelings of self-efficacy, and self-esteem. School performance scores were obtained at the end of the first semester. Findings indicated that girls, as compared to boys, were more threatened by daily hassles, showed more psychological distress and less personal resources, but obtained a similar score of school performance even though they felt much more worried before exams. Both regression analyses showed that school performance (7% of the variance obtained) and psychological stress (58% of the variance obtained) are significantly associated with the variables introduced in this study. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
