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The Impact of Academic Stress on Mental Health Issues: The Role of Uncertainty of Tolerance and Future Time Perspective

Xiuhan LiNewcastle University, Newcastle, NE1 7RU, UK*

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

At present, college students’ mental health issues have caught the social attention. A large number of studies found that mental health issues among college students are related to academic pressure. Thus, this study aims to understand how uncertainty of tolerance and future time perspective affect academic pressure..This study has 309 participants from China. They need to fill in four questionnaires, including the future time perspective questionnaire, academic stress questionnaire, uncertainty of tolerance questionnaire, and mental health questionnaire. Using structural equation modelling (SEM), the result showed that the association between academic stress and mental health was mediated by uncertainty of tolerance and future time perspective separately. The relationship between academic stress and mental health may then be impacted by uncertainty of tolerance, which could as chain mediation to forecast future time perspectives. This study focuses on the effects of uncertainty tolerance and future time perspective between college students’ academic stress and mental health. Mental health is directly affected by academic stress, but uncertainty of tolerance and future time perspective play a mediating role, predisposing to anxiety to some extent.

Keywords: academic stress; mental health; uncertainty of tolerance; future time perspective
Published: March 31, 2025
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/2025.21658
Volume: CHR Vol.54
pp. 108-114
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