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Resilience as a coping strategy for reducing departure intentions of accounting students

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  • Kenneth J. Smith
  • Timothy D. Haight
  • David J. Emerson
  • Shawn Mauldin
  • Bob G. Wood

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This study evaluates the influence of resilience as a potential coping strategy to help reduce student departure from the accounting major. We collected data from 443 accounting majors at four geographically disbursed U.S. universities using a battery of psychometric instruments. With these data, we analyzed the relations between role stressors, psychological health, burnout, and departure intentions, and assessed the extent to which individual resilience levels served as a positive influence by enhancing health, and diminishing burnout and departure intentions. We found sources of role stress to have significant negative associations with psychological health, and significant positive associations with academic burnout (direct), and departure intentions (indirect). However, resilience counteracted those associations through its direct positive association with psychological health, and direct negative association with burnout. Resilience also had a significant indirect negative association with departure intentions through its direct associations with psychological health (positive) and burnout (negative).

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  • Kenneth J. Smith & Timothy D. Haight & David J. Emerson & Shawn Mauldin & Bob G. Wood, 2020. "Resilience as a coping strategy for reducing departure intentions of accounting students," Accounting Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(1), pages 77-108, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:accted:v:29:y:2020:i:1:p:77-108
    DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2019.1700140
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    1. David J. Emerson & Joseph F. Hair & Kenneth J. Smith, 2023. "Psychological Distress, Burnout, and Business Student Turnover: The Role of Resilience as a Coping Mechanism," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 64(2), pages 228-259, March.
    2. Amina Muazzam & Ambreen Anjum & Anna Visvizi, 2020. "Problem-Focused Coping Strategies, Workplace Bullying, and Sustainability of HEIs," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(24), pages 1-13, December.
    3. Apostolou, Barbara & Dorminey, Jack W. & Hassell, John M., 2021. "Accounting education literature review (2020)," Journal of Accounting Education, Elsevier, vol. 55(C).

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