Social Emotional Health and Strategies for Coping with Stress Among University Students
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stress, coping, social-emotional health, covitality, studentsAbstract
The article presents research on student stress, exploring the relationship between students’ socio-emotional health levels and their coping strategies. The assessment of health levels was conducted using the covitality construct. The study, which involved an online CAWI survey, included N=491 students from Poland. The Polish adaptation of the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations by Z. Juczyński and N. Ogińska-Bulik, as well as the Student Social-Emotional Health Scale (SEHS-HE) adapted by the authors from M. Furlong’s work, were used. The data analysis employed correlation and multiple regression methods. Results indicated that a high level of socio-emotional health promotes coping through emotional support seeking and positive reappraisal strategies. These strategies were also found to be positive predictors of socioemotional health, while the use of avoidance strategies in stress-related situations was not beneficial for strengthening socio-emotional health resources. The findings suggest the need for educational programs focused on developing socio-emotional health resources among students.
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