Profiles of psychological well-being and coping strategies among university students

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue OCT, 2016, Pages

  Freire, Carlos ^a   Ferradás, María Del Mar ^a   Valle, Antonio ^a   Núñez, José C ^b   Vallejo, Guillermo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Academic stress; Coping strategies; Latent profile analysis; Psychological well being; University students

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996551425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01554     Document Type: Article

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