On retrospective rating scales, US high school students reported feeling stressed 79.83% and bored 69.51% of the time, with positive feelings (46.60%) slightly exceeding negative feelings (40.67%)¶

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q2 i? Students most often reported feeling stressed and bored on rating scales. → Moeller 2017 q2 i? PANAS subscale means showed positive feelings averaged 46.60% and negative feelings 40.67% of the time. → Moeller 2017 (2)

Evidence¶

Moeller 2017¶

Moeller, J., Brackett, M. A., Ivcevic, Z., & White, A. E. (2017). High school students' feelings: Discoveries from a large national survey and an experience sampling study. Preprint / self-archived. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=High+school+students%E2%80%99+feelings+Moeller+Brackett+Ivcevic+White

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Rating-scale results from the same national online survey (N = 21,678), using PANAS-C items plus stressed and bored items on a 0 (never) to 100 (always) scale. The survey found students "most often reported feeling stressed (79.83% of the time) and bored (69.51% of the time)".

"Students most often reported feeling stressed (79.83% of the time) and bored (69.51% of the time)."

Moeller 2017 (2)¶

Moeller, J., Brackett, M. A., Ivcevic, Z., & White, A. E. (2017). High school students' feelings: Discoveries from a large national survey and an experience sampling study. Preprint / self-archived. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=High+school+students%E2%80%99+feelings+Moeller+Brackett+Ivcevic+White

q2 · i? · associational · r2

PANAS subscale means from the same national survey; the PANAS factor structure was supported in a confirmatory factor analysis (CFI = .974; RMSEA = .056). Students "reported positive feelings on average 46.60% of the time and negative feelings 40.67 of the time".

"Results from the PANAS subscales of positive affect and negative affect showed that students reported positive feelings on average 46.60% of the time and negative feelings 40.67 of the time."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• In experience sampling during lessons, tired was the only feeling rated above the scale midpoint, and positive feelings (calm, happy, relaxed) ranked second to fourth, ahead of stressed and bored — related
• In open-ended responses to a national survey, about three-quarters of the feelings US high school students reported about school were negative, with tired, stressed, and bored the most frequent — related
• Study 2 replicated the open-ended findings: seven of the ten most frequently mentioned feelings were the same across both studies, including tired, stressed, and bored as the three most frequent negative feelings — related