Examining the stress management strategies depression and anxiety levels of university students in the COVID 19 pandemic period

This research was carried out to determine the relationship between stress coping strategies and depression and anxiety. Within the scope of the research, it was also examined whether university students differed significantly in their strategies for coping with stress in terms of gender, class level, income level, education system during the pandemic process, with whom they spent the pandemic process, and whether they had Covid or not. The research group consists of students who continue their university education during the pandemic process. A total of 409 university students, 254 (62.1%) female and 155 (37.9%) male, participated in the study. The research was carried out with the relational scanning model, one of the general scanning models. The data in the study were obtained by using the Personal Information Form, Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory, and the Scale of Coping Styles with Stress. Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Analysis was performed to examine the relationship between coping with stress, depression and anxiety. In the negative direction between depression and anxiety, optimistic approach and self-confident approach; A positive and significant relationship was found between helpless approach, seeking social support and submissive approach. Independent groups t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to determine whether the stress coping strategies of university students differed significantly in terms of demographic variables. As a result of the research, there was a significant difference between the strategies of coping with stress and the variables of gender, class level, income level and covid status; There was no significant difference according to the variables of the education system during the pandemic process and with whom the pandemic process was spent.