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Coping Mechanisms In Graduate School: A Discipline Comparison, Sandra P. Montenegro
Coping Mechanisms In Graduate School: A Discipline Comparison, Sandra P. Montenegro
The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal
The current study aimed to provide an overview of graduate students’ stress and coping mechanisms. Per self-reported questionnaires, participants (N=95) rated their experiences with academic-related stressors, common coping mechanisms, and strain outcomes (somatic symptoms, insomnia, and burnout). This study found that task-related stressors were the most prevalent for graduate schoolwork. More specifically, graduate students in STEM, Arts & Humanities, and Social Sciences rated the amount and difficulty of the tasks (quantitative and qualitative properties of tasks) as the highest stressors in graduate school. The preferred coping strategies across all fields were planning and emotional coping. Additionally, students in STEM reported …