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Academic stress is a significant psychological and educational concern among undergraduate students because university study involves high academic workload, frequent examinations, strict performance expectations, overlapping deadlines, adjustment to new learning environments, and crucial decisions about future careers. Anxiety may increase substantially when students perceive academic demands as exceeding their available coping resources, whereas self-efficacy refers to students' internal beliefs about their capability to successfully organize and execute courses of action required to manage academic tasks. The present study proposes to examine the complex relationship among academic stress, anxiety, and self-efficacy among undergraduate students. A quantitative, cross-sectional, correlational research design will be used. Undergraduate students meeting the inclusion criteria will be recruited using an appropriate non-probability sampling technique. Data will be collected using a demographic information sheet and standardized self-report measures of academic stress, anxiety, and general/academic self-efficacy. Descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, Pearson correlation, and multiple regression will be used to examine the study variables. The findings may assist counselling psychologists, student-support services, faculty members, and educational institutions in identifying modifiable psychological factors relevant to undergraduate adjustment.

This study aims to develop an integrative conceptual model that connects student development management and Islamic Guidance and Counseling (Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam/BKI) within the framework of holistic student development in Islamic education. The study employs an integrative conceptual literature review to identify, examine, and synthesize relevant theoretical and conceptual perspectives. Literature was searched through Google Scholar, Garuda, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) during January–July 2026. From an initial 312 records, successive stages of duplicate removal, relevance screening, and full-text assessment resulted in a final corpus of 58 sources. The literature was analyzed through data extraction, initial coding, thematic categorization, cross-source comparison, and conceptual synthesis. The literature synthesis indicates conceptual convergence around the importance of integrating students’ spiritual, moral, psychological, and personal development within Islamic education. Based on this synthesis, the study proposes an integrative conceptual model comprising four interconnected components: fitrah as the philosophical and anthropological foundation of human potential; holistic Islamic education as the overarching developmental orientation; student development management as the institutional framework for planning, coordinating, and evaluating student development; and Islamic Guidance and Counseling as the professional support mechanism for identifying students’ needs and facilitating preventive, responsive, and developmental interventions. Functionally, fitrah establishes the foundational understanding of human potential, holistic Islamic education defines the developmental direction, student development management translates this orientation into coordinated institutional practices, and Islamic Guidance and Counseling provides individualized and group-based support within appropriate professional boundaries. These components operate as a mutually reinforcing framework for integrating educational planning, student support, and holistic development. The study concludes that this model offers a coherent conceptual basis for understanding student development in Islamic education, while its practical applicability and effectiveness require further empirical examination.

Students of Universitas Terbuka Layanan Luar Negeri (UTLLN) pursue distance education under varied learning conditions. Many also work, making preparedness and motivation important for sustaining academic activities. This study examined the effects of training and development and learning motivation on UTLLN students’ academic performance. Data came from an online Likert-scale questionnaire. Of 168 responses, 153 were analyzed after screening and the removal of one pilot response. IBM SPSS Statistics supported the preliminary instrument assessment, while PLS-SEM in SmartPLS 4 was used to examine relationships among the constructs. Training and development had a positive effect on academic performance, with a path coefficient of 0.225 and a p-value of 0.009. Learning motivation also had a positive effect, with a path coefficient of 0.570 and a p-value below 0.001. Together, both constructs explained 49.2% of the variance in academic performance. Learning motivation contributed more strongly than training and development. These findings suggest that institutional academic support should be accompanied by efforts to help students maintain commitment and regular study habits.

دانشجویان Universitas Terbuka Layanan Luar Negeri (UTLLN) آموزش از راه دور را در شرایط یادگیری متنوع دنبال می‌کنند. بسیاری از آنان همزمان مشغول به کار هستند، بنابراین آمادگی و انگیزش برای تداوم فعالیت‌های تحصیلی اهمیت دارد. این پژوهش تأثیر آموزش و توسعه و انگیزش یادگیری را بر عملکرد تحصیلی دانشجویان UTLLN بررسی کرد. داده‌ها از طریق پرسشنامه آنلاین با مقیاس لیکرت گردآوری شد. از مجموع ۱۶۸ پاسخ، پس از غربالگری و حذف یک پاسخ آزمایشی، ۱۵۳ پاسخ مورد تحلیل قرار گرفت. برای ارزیابی مقدماتی ابزار از نرم‌افزار IBM SPSS Statistics و برای بررسی روابط میان سازه‌ها از روش PLS-SEM در نرم‌افزار SmartPLS 4 استفاده شد. آموزش و توسعه تأثیر مثبت بر عملکرد تحصیلی داشت (ضریب مسیر ۰٫۲۲۵ و مقدار p برابر با ۰٫۰۰۹). انگیزش یادگیری نیز تأثیر مثبت داشت (ضریب مسیر ۰٫۵۷۰ و مقدار p کمتر از ۰٫۰۰۱). مجموعاً، این دو سازه ۴۹٫۲٪ از واریانس عملکرد تحصیلی را تبیین کردند. سهم انگیزش یادگیری از آموزش و توسعه بیشتر بود. این یافته‌ها نشان می‌دهد که حمایت تحصیلی نهادی باید با تلاش‌هایی برای کمک به دانشجویان در حفظ تعهد و عادات مطالعه منظم همراه باشد.