Achieving desired performance in higher education tenure requires very hardworking and tireless efforts to meet the expectations and standards, such as students' tiring conditions often characterized by a high-stress level. Subsequently, the stress in academic settings is known to affect the individual adversely, and it is becoming essential to the student to perform under such stressful circumstances. Moreover, a high academic stress level may not affect an individual's performance with positive emotions toward their studies, courses, and other academic activities. Based on prior literature and rational opinions by students' academic stress levels in academic settings, such relationships may be moderated by the students' positive emotions that a student has.
The paper integrates the theory of planned behavior concepts, attitude, subjective norms, self-efficacy directly related to knowledge-seeking intention, and it further proposes the moderating role of the supportive supervisor in the relationship with attitude, subjective norms, self-efficacy directly related to the knowledgeseeking intention of international students within Chinese academic settings. The higher educational institution globally trying to attract the educational aspirants and offer a quality of education with a conducive environment to provide academic support that may increase their behavioral intention. Archival study in which references from books, journals, and other studies have been obtaining to develop propositions.
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