Coping Strategies as Predictors of Anxiety: Exploring Positive Experience of Chinese University in Health Education in COVID-19 Pandemic - Creative Education

CE > Vol.11 No.5, May 2020

Volume 11, Issue 5 (May 2020)

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Coping Strategies as Predictors of Anxiety: Exploring Positive Experience of Chinese University in Health Education in COVID-19 Pandemic ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ce.2020.115053 1,470 Downloads 5,608 Views Citations

Author(s)

Yue Li^1,2, Jun Peng^2*

Affiliation(s)

¹School of Art, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.
²School of Education, City University of Macau, Macau, China.

ABSTRACT

Background: It is urgent to identify the effective measures to cope with the psychological stress triggered by the precipitate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Objective: The present study aimed at examining the levels and links of the anxiety and coping strategies, and then exploring the coping predictors in anxiety in the crisis. Methods: An online survey was conducted using stratified random sampling method among 2640 Chinese university students from 21 February to 24 February 2020. The students’ anxiety and coping strategies were measured by the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) and the Coping Strategy Questionnaire (CSQ), respectively. Results: The students expressed high levels of coping strategies and comparatively low level of anxiety. Multiple stepwise regression analysis showed that cognitive coping, emotional coping, and social support had a significantly negative predictive effect on anxiety, social support being the most powerful predictor, whereas behavioral coping predicted anxiety positively. Conclusion: The findings suggest that the enhancement of cognitive coping, emotional coping, and social support should be highlighted and the potentially destructive impact of behavioral coping is noteworthy, and the pedagogical implications in health education are hereby addressed.

KEYWORDS

Coping Strategy, Anxiety, Predictor, Experience, Chinese University Students, COVID-19 Pandemic, Health Education

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Li, Y. and Peng, J. (2020) Coping Strategies as Predictors of Anxiety: Exploring Positive Experience of Chinese University in Health Education in COVID-19 Pandemic. Creative Education, 11, 735-750. doi: 10.4236/ce.2020.115053.

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