Factors influencing academic resilience of master students in China

This study conducted a survey using the Academic Resilience Scale and the Factors Influencing Academic Resilience Scale among 558 master’s students during the COVID-19 period. The findings reveal that master’s students’ academic resilience is at a moderately high level. Factors such as research self-efficacy, research involvement, academic guidance from supervisors, support from the university, and family support are at moderate levels and significantly influence master’s students’ academic resilience. Additionally, the study found that students with a higher frequency of communication with supervisors and those involved in supervisors’ research projects or leading their own research projects demonstrate higher levels of academic resilience and validated the applicability of an input-process-output model to contemporary master’s students. Given the above findings, it is important to enhance master students’ research investment, effectively provide them with tutor guidance and family support, and concentrate on their negative influence and emotional response to improve their academic resilience.