Coping strategies and psychological well-being in adolescents of a private educational institution in Metropolitan Lima

Abstract

The objective of the research was to establish the relationship of coping strategies to stress and the psychological well-being of adolescents from a Private Educational Institution. The research was basic, descriptive - correlational, non-experimental and cross-sectional. It had a total of 134 adolescents belonging to the 4th and 5th year of high school, with ages ranging from 14 to 16 years. The Adolescent Coping Scale (ACS) and the Adolescent Psychological Well-being Scale (Bieps-J) were produced as instruments. The results made it possible to show that adolescents have a good level (51.5%) of psychological well-being and that the coping strategies most frequently used are seeking relaxing entertainment (15.7%) and social action (25, 4 %). The research showed that almost all coping strategies focused on problem solving are directly related to the psychological well-being of adolescents.