ABSTRACT
The study was conducted to determine if there was a mediating effect of hope between stress in online learning and flow among BS Psychology students. Utilizing mediation analysis, data were gathered from 212 students from chosen tertiary educational institutions in Laguna, Philippines and were analyzed using regression analysis and Sobel Test. It was revealed that students in online learning had slightly high level of stress and very high level of hope and flow. It was also revealed that stress levels had significant negative association with hope (B = -.754, p <.001) and flow (B = -.312, p = <.001), while hope (B = .305, p = <.001) was positively associated with flow, wherein, stress accounts 12.1% of the variance in hope and both stress and hope accounts 53.7% of the variance in flow. Furthermore, hope level carried a significant partial mediating effect between stress level and flow level (t = 4.888, p = <.000) which meant impact of stress to flow could not fully mediated by hope, even without hope, stress can still significantly impact flow of students. Lastly, an action plan was also proposed.
Keywords: stress, hope, flow, mediation, online learning
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