Relation of stress coping strategies and depressive symptoms in university students

Abstract

Relationships between students’ coping strategies with stress and effects on depressive tendencies of negative automatic thoughts are examined in the poster. A group of 153 (126 female and 27 male) university students attending the University of Üsküdar were examined using the Coping Strategy with Stress Indicator (CSSI) to measure the styles of coping with stress; the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) to measure the level of depression and the Revised Automatic Thoughts Scale (ATS-R) to measure the negative automatic thoughts. Significant relationships were established among CSSI, BDI and ATS-R.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.