Students' emotional intelligence and academic stress in 21st century learning

Abstract

Academic stress is a common trend in problems faced by students in the 21st-century learning era. This trend comes from the high demands and pressures in achieving academic achievement, thus providing vulnerability to excessive emotional burdens on students. Therefore, managing emotional intelligence is important in overcoming academic stress conditions. This study aims to analyze and synthesize 10 research articles that discuss students' emotional intelligence and academic stress. This study uses a quantitative meta-analysis approach. The study's results revealed that emotional intelligence has a positive relationship with controlling students' academic stress. These results indicate that the higher the mastery of emotional intelligence, the better the academic stress management. This study provides essential facts about managing students' emotional intelligence. Further research can be directed at quantitatively testing the sustainable impact of managing emotional intelligence on students more broadly with the diversity of student conditions.