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Record W4416728661 · doi:10.1111/ejed.70334

The Influence of Traits of Resilience and Internalising Symptoms of Mental Health on the Transition From Secondary to Post‐Secondary in Canada

2025· article· en· W4416728661 on OpenAlexaffabout
Ana Badal, Elizabeth A. Wanstall, Guy Proulx

Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Journal of Education · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicResilience and Mental Health
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMental healthLocus of controlPath analysis (statistics)Psychological resilienceAcademic achievementAnxietyBig Five personality traits

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Research on the transition from high school to university supports that over 90% of students will notice their grades decrease when entering first‐year university. However, the nature of this drop remains largely unknown. The current study proposes a path analysis model to explore the mechanism by which traits of resilience (i.e., locus of control, self‐efficacy, resilience, academic resilience and academic buoyancy) may influence grade point average (GPA) changes in students transitioning from a secondary to post‐secondary institution in Canada. The influence of student mental health on these variables was also of interest. One hundred and thirty‐nine students responded to scales assessing their locus of control (LOC), self‐efficacy, resilience, academic resilience, anxiety and depression. A basic change score was computed to quantify GPA changes during this transition. The path analysis revealed that higher self‐efficacy and internal LOC predicted higher scores of academic resilience but not GPA changes. Supplementary analyses revealed anxiety and depression were the only variables significantly related to all the model variables, including academic resilience and GPA change scores. In turn, personality constructs may influence the academic resilience of students; however, mental health may significantly influence the relationships between these constructs, academic resilience and GPA changes. Considering the COVID‐19 pandemic, the current findings may highlight the increasing impact of internalising symptoms of mental health on academic performance in a remote learning setting.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.964
Threshold uncertainty score0.968

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.312
Teacher spread0.305 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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