How does Coping Lead to Emotional Wellbeing and Ill-being? Youth’s Response to COVID-19 Pandemi

By : Meenakshi Gokhale, Pradnya Kulkarni

Page No: 297-306

Abstract:
Since March 2020, students have had to face various stressors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which influenced their emotional wellbeing. The present research aims to understand the impact of coping strategies on experience of emotions. Participants of the study were 1,035 students from three streams (Arts, Science, and Commerce, UG & PG) from Maharashtra. Stepwise multiple regression was used to determine which coping strategies significantly predicted positive emotions as well as negative emotions. The study implies that during pandemic situations the use of adaptive coping strategies helps maintain positivity and regulation of negative emotions among youths.

Authors :
Meenakshi Gokhale
Department of Psychology, Sir Parashurambhau College, Pune.

Pradnya Kulkarni
Department of Psychology, Sir Parashurambhau College, Pune
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2021.16.02.9