You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too:College Students'Academic-Intimate Relationship Spillover and Its Mechanism
Objective:This research aims to explore in college students,whether or not and how stress from the academ-ic and the intimate relationship domains might spillover and impact outcomes of the other domain and the potential mecha-nism.Methods:This current research included a cross-sectional study and a two-wave longitudinal study.781 undergrad-uate and graduate students participated in this research.Questionnaires including Learning Stress Inventory for College Stu-dents,Romantic Relationship Stressor Scale for College Students,Coping Styles Questionnaire,Academic Burnout Survey for College Students and Relationship Assessment Scale were distributed through Wen-Juan-Xing online platform.Re-sults:Cross-sectional and longitudinal data showed that college students'academic stress and intimate relationship stress predicted their relationship quality and academic burnout level separately,in which the prediction of relationship stress to-wards burnout was more robust;(2)Coping,especially negative coping style served as a significant mediator in academic-in-timate relationship spillover.This mediating role was more robust in relationship to academic spillover.Conclusion:The current research found evidence of a negative spillover effect between academic and intimate relationship among college stu-dents.Moreover,coping style served as a mediator in this academic-intimate relationship spillover.
Academic stressIntimate relationship stressSpilloverConflictCoping styleCollege students
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