Impacto emocional y estrategias de afrontamiento en estudiantes universitarios durante la época de confinamiento por Covid-19

Abstract

The objective of this research was to investigate the emotional impact and coping strategies of students in psychology and other university careers during confinement due to the Covid-pandemic19, after this it was also sought to compare the answers and correlate the results taking into account whether the university career that each participant attended was relevant. Within the study, the qualitative and comparative method was worked using 2 instruments for data collection, the instruments used were individually semi-structured interviews and a focus group. The design used within the research was Grounded Theory as it goes beyond previous studies. In order to carry out this study, we first inquired about previous studies related to the subject of research, then intentionally sampled the selection of 12 university students with an age range between 20 and 28 years, on the one hand 6 participants were psychology students and 6 participants were students of various university careers, once the sample was obtained, semi-structured interviews were made using the Zoom platform to each participant, then the focus group was developed with the participation of the 12 students. Finally, the transcription of the individual interviews and the focus group was made to perform an open codification where the obtained data was disaggregated and the creation of categories, which indicated a significant degree in the emotional impact of psychology students as opposed to students in other university careers, as well as evidencing that psychology students based their coping strategies on emotions, while students from other careers based their coping strategies on avoidance. It was also known that for all participants the university career was relevant, but in different ways, on the one hand, psychology students saw the contents of their subjects as identification tools, but not as coping strategies, However, for students of other careers, the motivation and X taste for their career was relevant for the development of coping strategies. In general a more pessimistic picture was found in the context of confinement in psychology students, compared with students of other university careers in terms of emotions and negative consequences in the context of confinement because of the Covid-19.