Effective Coping with Academic Stress Is a Matter of Personality Types: Revisiting the Person-Centred Approach.

ABSTRACT: Recent literature provides alarming data on the increase in university academic stress. The role of personality in understanding and addressing this problem is well established. However, this evidence could be improved by adopting a person-centred approach (e.g., types), as opposed to the usual variable-centred approach (e.g., traits), and considering the role of gender. Our aim was to explore how personality types and gender relate to coping strategies and perceived coping efficacy for academic stress. A total of 810 university psychology students completed the NEO-FFI Inventory and the Coping Strategies Inventory. Post hoc tests for MANOVA and ANOVA were performed. Types and gender were used as predictors and coping strategies, and perceived coping efficacy as criteria. There was no type

SUBMITTER: Varo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10451618 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature