IMPACTS OF PERCEIVED STRESS AND PERCEIVED SOCIAL SUPPORT ON MENTAL HEALTH OF STUDENTS AS EFFECTS OF COVID-19 IN ONLINE LEARNING IN VIETNAM

Abstract

The study investigated the impact of perceived social support on stress perception through the readiness of 528 online students. Research results show that cognitive factors of social support have a partial impact on student readiness while student readiness has no impact on perceived stress. The study found that there was no impact between student readiness and perceived stress because all hypotheses were rejected. This result shows that perceived stress is not related to readiness in terms of student characteristics, communication or technical competence