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Saturday May 16, 2020
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Chaseton Moncrieffe
FACULTY: Dr. Ruth Tincoff
DEPARTMENT: Psychology
This research study identifies the preferred coping mechanisms within an ethnically diverse sample of college students with high levels of depression and/or stress. Generally, minority college students in the United States, report experiences of racial stressors and academic stressors along with depression, however, various ethnicities utilize different strategies of coping. The coping mechanisms used by college students when perceiving stress and depression were identified through the use of an online survey that consisted of 3 instruments: The Undergraduate Stress Questionnaire (USQ), Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced Inventory (Brief COPE), and Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) scale. 103 student participants from The College of Idaho completed the survey measures and provided demographic information. To test the study's hypotheses, the data is going to be analyzed through the use of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) as a quantitative methodology specifically using multiple regression analysis to examine the relationships among ethnicity and the survey measures. This research has the potential to set the foundation for a greater understanding of coping mechanisms and how it possibly affects various ethnicities of college students, specifically minority groups such as the Black and Latinx communities.
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