{"ID":2888156,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01105","arxiv_id":"2508.01105","title":"Protecting Student Mental Health with a Context-Aware Machine Learning Framework for Stress Monitoring","abstract":"Student mental health is an increasing concern in academic institutions, where stress can severely impact well-being and academic performance. Traditional assessment methods rely on subjective surveys and periodic evaluations, offering limited value for timely intervention. This paper introduces a context-aware machine learning framework for classifying student stress using two complementary survey-based datasets covering psychological, academic, environmental, and social factors. The framework follows a six-stage pipeline involving preprocessing, feature selection (SelectKBest, RFECV), dimensionality reduction (PCA), and training with six base classifiers: SVM, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, XGBoost, AdaBoost, and Bagging. To enhance performance, we implement ensemble strategies, including hard voting, soft voting, weighted voting, and stacking. Our best models achieve 93.09% accuracy with weighted hard voting on the Student Stress Factors dataset and 99.53% with stacking on the Stress and Well-being dataset, surpassing previous benchmarks. These results highlight the potential of context-integrated, data-driven systems for early stress detection and underscore their applicability in real-world academic settings to support student well-being.","short_abstract":"Student mental health is an increasing concern in academic institutions, where stress can severely impact well-being and academic performance. Traditional assessment methods rely on subjective surveys and periodic evaluations, offering limited value for timely intervention. This paper introduces a context-aware machine...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01105","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01105v1","authors":"[\"Md Sultanul Islam Ovi\",\"Jamal Hossain\",\"Md Raihan Alam Rahi\",\"Fatema Akter\"]","published":"2025-08-01T22:52:25Z","proceeding":"cs.LG","tasks":"[\"cs.LG\",\"cs.AI\",\"cs.CY\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}