Exploring adolescent academic stress in the digital and urban age: a mixed-methods study from CIT to checklist validation

(1) Newly identified stressful academic events were found to be correlated with urban and online communities, and all related items were significant in the survey. These findings highlight the importance of considering the impact of digitalization and urbanization on academic stress. (2) Weak ties and new interaction ways were found to contribute to stressful academic events, while the checklist exhibited a single-factor structure. The findings suggest that the proposed three-dimensional framework requires further empirical validation. (3) ASAEC provides a reliable tool for assessing adolescent academic stress from an ecological perspective, facilitating more effective management that accounts for various interactions with a wide range of social actors.