Overload Learning, Attachment and Coping Styles Predictors of Mental and Physical Health of Teenage High School Students in Romania

Abstract

The current research analyses the impact of overload learning, attachment and coping styles on self-perceived physical and psychological health. The participants were 285 high school students, aged between 16 and 18 years old (M=16.72, S.D.=1.14), both males and females, nearby Bucharest, Romania. The instrumets were the Coping Styles and Emotions Undergraduate Inventory and the perception of mental and physical health and the high school's attachment scale adapted on high school students. After applying a model of multiple regression, the results highlighted that positive coping styles, attachment, homework and extra activities overload are predictors for perceived mental and physical health.