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Stress and coping have attracted examination from viewpoints of students and faculty, but often separately. We aim to combine these perspectives by considering the interplay of stress and coping, and how these emerge among students and teachers at a business school where study structures have changed. Our findings indicate a strong connection between the stress experienced by students and by faculty. We subsequently categorise the various stressors as (1) those for which effective coping mechanisms exist, (2) those that exhibit tensions and require active management, and (3) those that are difficult to overcome because the coping mechanism for one group increases the stress of the other. Our findings contribute to the existing knowledge on stress and coping in higher education by combining the viewpoints of students and teachers. The study also extends understanding of business education and the role of study structures in the well-being of business students and faculty.
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Heikka, EL., Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, P., Keränen, O., Partanen, P. (2022). Study Structures in the Interplay of Stress and Coping in Higher Education. In: Li, H., Ghorbanian Zolbin, M., Krimmer, R., Kärkkäinen, J., Li, C., Suomi, R. (eds) Well-Being in the Information Society: When the Mind Breaks. WIS 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1626. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14832-3_13
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