SANOGENIC POTENTIAL OF UNIVERSITYSTUDENTS’ REFLEXIVE PROCESSES IN SITUATION OF STRESS

Abstract

Forced social isolation during a pandemic, restriction of direct contacts, lack of sensory experiences, uncertainty leads to a person’s assessment of the situation as stressful. Studies of students’ emotional experiences in a pandemic situation showed a significant increase in anxiety, deterioration of emotional well-being [1, 2], decreased self-efficacy and psychological well-being [3, 4, 5]. Dealing with stressful experiences is accompanied by the manifestation of appropriate copings or ways of dealing with stress [6]. We wondered how students’ thinking about their experiences in a stressful situation determines the dominant ways of coping with stress and helps them gain new positive knowledge about themselves. We assessed the sanogenic potential of reflection in the experience of stress through a comparative analysis of the features of the organization of students’ reflexive processes pattern with coping strategies in a stressful situation.