Stressors, Coping Strategies, and Resilience of University Students during COVID-19 Pandemic in India

The COVID- 19 pandemic has brought many challenges for students as the classes have shifted online and this caused changes in their stressors, their coping, and resilience they carry. This study examined the relationship between Stressors, Coping Strategies, and Resilience of University students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data was collected from 141 university students using the Student Stress Scale, Cope Inventory, and Connor Davidson Resilience Scale. Results showed that Separation is the most common type of stressor which was followed by the Health of Others. Spearman’s correlation analysis indicated there is a significant positive correlation between stressors such as Financial, Family, Social, Education, etc and coping strategies such as Problem Focused, Emotion-Focused and Dysfunctional Focused coping. There is a significant positive correlation between coping strategies such as Problem-focused coping, Emotionfocused coping, and Resilience while there is a significant negative correlation between Dysfunctional coping and Resilience. The pandemic showed a shift in concern for students as they are worried about coping with being separated from loved ones and their health. Separation is found to be the most common stressor to which individuals apply problem-focused coping; hence this could be used as the basis for psychological interventions or prevention strategies for stressors to increase resilience