Coping space transformation at different levels of university training during the pandemic and the assessment of its integral indicators
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https://doi.org/10.33910/2687-0223-2022-4-2-115-123Keywords:
pandemic, Ways of Coping Questionnaire, students, permutation test, statistical population, two-block partial least squares, Mantel testAbstract
The impact of the pandemic on mental health is top of the research agenda in various regions of the world. Of particular interest are the methods that allow people to cope with difficulties. University students are a subgroup (along with the elderly and medical staff) that was found to have a higher risk of psychiatric symptoms among other population subgroups. Presumably, university students of different levels of training—specialist degree students in junior and senior years of training, bachelor, master, and doctoral students— will show different adaptation patterns to learning in the new environment. The purpose of the study was to identify the methods of assessing the direction and degree of transformation of coping space in students of different levels of university training under the combined influence of living and studying during the pandemic. The study also aimed to demonstrate the effectiveness of assessing group indicators by generating statistic populations.
The pseudo-longitudinal study included 416 (healthy) volunteers. Among them 260 were examined before the pandemic and 156 during the pandemic. The sample comprised of 291 undergraduate students, 59 master and 66 doctoral students. The study is based on the Methodology for the Psychological Diagnosis of Ways to Cope with Stressful and Problematic Situations.
The coping model in all the subjects is underpinned by a latent structure associated with psychophysiological characteristics. It is shown that during the pandemic the coping space of bachelor students tends to shrink, while master and doctoral students show an expansion trend.
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