College life is a time when various stresses are concentrated for students due to psychological independence and uncertainty about the future while adapting to a new environment. If you cope well with stressful situations, you can adapt to your health...
College life is a time when various stresses are concentrated for students due to psychological independence and uncertainty about the future while adapting to a new environment. If you cope well with stressful situations, you can adapt to your health, but if you fail, you can become maladjusted.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the stressors and coping styles according to the anger-control ability and the emotion recognition clarity for the purpose of exploring the personal characteristics necessary to cope with the stress of college students effectively. This study analyzed the overall Stress, Stress Coping Style, Stress factor, Anger-Control Ability, and Emotional-Clarity as well as their correlations and differences.
The participants of this study were 221 male students and 221 female students attending universities in Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi. Participants were asked to complete the research instruments that included the Stress Coping Style scale, the Multidimensional Anger Inventory scale (MAI), and the Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS).
The results of this study are as follows. First, college students showed the most stress from academic problems and course matter. Among the stress coping methods, the coping method of hopeful thinking was used the most and emotional relaxation coping was used the least. Anger-Control Ability and Emotional-Clarity were high. Second, the perceived stress index, factors, and positive coping styles were differed significantly according to grade. There was a significant difference in the stress index according to the subjective economic level of the family. The anger-control ability varied according to gender, and the emotion recognition clarity varied according to the residence type. Third, stress index and anger-control ability were negatively correlated, and stress index and emotional awareness were negatively correlated. There was a high correlation between anger-control ability and emotional-clarity, and there was a high static correlation between four sub - factors of stress coping style. Anger-control ability and emotional-clarity correlated with emotion relief coping among the four coping strategies.
This study is meaningful in examining the student background variables that are positively related to stress and coping styles in college students. Furthermore, it is significant that we showed efforts for healthy adaptation. In addition, we analyzed the roles of adaptive variables such as anger-control ability and emotional-clarity affecting stress and coping style. This will be the basic data in counseling and education field that can focus on the strengths of college students.