Introduction:

The psychological impact caused by the Covid-19 pandemic on adolescents in school entails the need for analysis of coping strategies and resilience, when facing stressful life events.

Objective:

To identify the correlation between the variables of stressful life events, coping strategies and resilience in a group of adolescents from the city of Pasto, Colombia in the context of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Method:

descriptive, correlational, non-experimental cross-sectional study. The adapted versions of the CEVE-AR Stressful Life Events Questionnaire for Adolescents (Villalobos et al., 2011), the Coping Strategies ScaleModifiedEEC-M (Londoño et al., 2006) and the School Resilience Scale were applied

E.R.E (Obando et al., 2020). An intentional sample of 145 adolescents between men and women aged between 14 and 19 years was selected.

Results:

The stressful life events variable was statistically significantly inversely correlated with resilience (p= -0,250) and directly with coping strategies such as emotional avoidance (p=0,164), aggressive reaction (p= 0,228) and expression of coping difficulty (p=0,254). On the contrary, an inverse correlation was found with problem solving strategies (p=-0,172) and seeking social support (p=-0,04).

Conclusions:

A weak correlation between stressful life events and coping strategies, and a moderate correlation between resilience and problem-solving strategies and seeking social support, is identified in the adolescent population in times of pandemic.

        · |     · |     · ( pdf )