Resumen

SIMOES, Margarida et al. Psychological Adjustment and Coping Strategies in College Students During the Couid-19 Pandemic. Av. Psicol. Latinoam. [online]. 2024, vol.42, n.3, e4237.  Epub 14-Abr-2025. ISSN 1794-4724.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/apl/a.10147.

The pandemic caused by covid-19 led university stu dents to face a situation with great demands and the need to adapt to a new personal and academic lifestyle. To explore the psychological adjustment in this specific population, the present investigation aimed to analyze the relationship between psychopathological symptoms and coping strategies in a sample of 636 Portuguese university students, mostly female (68.1 %) with an average age of 22.2 years (SD = 5.98). A sociodemographic questionnaire, the Psychopathological Symptoms Inventory (BSI) and the Coping Strategies Questionnaire were applied. The main results show that female students have higher values in all dimensions of BSI. There were also associations between escape/avoidance strategies and psychopathological symptoms. This study has important implications for the approach to university health services, namely in terms of mental health prevention and intervention within the target population.

Palabras clave : psychological adjustment; coping; covid-19; college students.

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