Influence of coping style on life satisfaction Among Vietnamese undergraduates of psychology, mediated by stress, anxiety, and depression
Influence of coping style on life satisfaction Among Vietnamese undergraduates of psychology, mediated by stress, anxiety, and depression
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2018
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Assumption University Press
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Scholar: Human Sciences 10, 2 (August-December 2018), 174-187
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This study investigated (1) the direct influence of coping style on life
satisfaction; (2) the indirect influences of coping style on life satisfaction, being
mediated by depression, anxiety, and stress; and (3) gender differences in coping
style, life satisfaction, depression, anxiety, and stress on a sample of 510 Vietnamese
undergraduates of psychology in Ho Chi Minh city. Vietnamese-translated versions
of the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS), Depression, Anxiety, and
Stress Scale (DASS), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) and a researcherconstructed demographic questionnaire were employed for data collection.
Reliability test, the t-test, and multiple regression analysis were used in data analysis.
Results revealed that problem-focused coping and avoidance-focused coping were
positively related to life satisfaction while emotion-focused coping was found to be
negatively correlated with life satisfaction. Furthermore, problem-focused coping
was found to be negatively correlated with depression, anxiety, and stress, whereas
emotion-focused coping was found to be positively correlated with the three emotive
variables. Avoidance-focused coping was negatively correlated with depression. In
terms of testing indirect relationship hypothesis, the regression analysis showed that
there was an indirect influence of emotion-focused coping and voidance-focused
coping on Vietnamese psychology undergraduate students’ life satisfaction, being
mediated by their reported level of depression. Additionally, no significant gender
differences were found in problem-focused coping, depression, anxiety, stress, and
life satisfaction. In contrast, there were significant gender differences in emotionfocused coping and avoidance-focused coping such that Vietnamese female students
of psychology tended to employ emotion-focused coping and avoidance-focused
coping more than their male counterparts.
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