| Sumario: | The present study associates the presence of academic stress and coping strategies used by university students enrolled in a Higher Education Institution in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia). It corresponds to a cross-sectional analytical study, in which 1947 students enrolled during the first period of 2018 participated. Three instruments were used for this purpose: the Survey on Socio Demographic Aspects, the Academic Stress Coping Scale (A-CEA) and the Perceived Academic Stress Scale (EEAP). For the bivariate analysis, the Fisher test was used. The comparison of the frequency of use of each of the coping strategies in each stressful situation was performed through multivariate analysis of one-way variance (MANOVA). The participants were mostly men (53.5%), single (95.4%), of low socioeconomic status (63.4%), with loss of some subject (50.23%). Students facing stressful situations use positive reassessment, planning and social support as a coping strategy in the face of competition for grades (p = 0.00); weakness of character (p = 0.00); Critical teachers (p = 0.00) and amount of work (p = 0.02). The coping strategy most used by students was the positive reassessment of the different academic stressors, establishing the elements to intervene and the strategies to be used to strengthen the student’s responses to stressful situations.
|
|---|
Biblioteca Digital de Vanguardia