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- Title
Recursos universitarios y personales promotores de bienestar y salud en estudiantes universitarios.
- Authors
Meda Lara, Rosa Martha; Blanco Donoso, Luis M.; Moreno Jiménez, Bernardo; Palomera Chávez, Andrés; Herrero, Marta
- Abstract
University students face new challenges and highly daily diverse activities, which often lead them to feel overloaded. Also, academic overload can cause health problems and poor wellbeing. In this context, both universities and students are responsible for activating institutional resources as well as students' own personal resources in order to help reduce overload and improve their quality of life. The objective of the present study was to explore the relationship between stress, resources and their consequences on health and wellbeing of university students. A second purpose included highlighting the interactive nature of this process. A total of 1015 university students from Mexico, Spain and Panama participated through a cross-sectional design. Participants responded to questionnaires on their perceived academic stress, their assessment of university resources, their attitude towards psychological distress and their levels of health and wellbeing. These last two variables included life satisfaction, quality of life, as well as somatic and psychosomatic symptoms. Results analyzed through hierarchical regression showed both direct and indirect effects among the study variables. Specifically, academic stress was directly related to all health criteria. This association was strongest for participants who negatively valued the resources from their university and among those who showed very little tolerance or acceptance of their own distress. Results are discussed in terms of the relevant work that universities carry out or should carry out in providing visible and accessible resources to their students.
- Publication
Revista Psicología y Salud, 2016, Vol 26, Issue 2, p195
- ISSN
1405-1109
- Publication type
Article