Emotional state and its correlation with the coping skills of university students, Popayán-Colombia

Abstract

Introduction.The linking of the student to university life generates modification of the patterns related to lifestyles, which affects mental health, and from the research perspectives it is associated with the processes of coping and emotional state. Aim. Establish a correlation between the coping processes and perceived emotional state of undergraduate students of a Colombian public university. Materials and methods. Cross-sectional correlational descriptive study, with a population of 295 university students, where the CEVJU-R UniversityYouth Lifestyles Questionnaire was applied, from the dimensions of Interpersonal relationships, Coping and perceived emotional state, the normality of the sample was estimated Together with Spearman correlation analysis and chi square (p