TY - JOUR AU - Cunha, Madalena PY - 2017/07/14 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Well-being in high school students JF - Millenium - Journal of Education, Technologies, and Health JA - Rev. Mill VL - 2 IS - 2e SE - Education and Social Development Sciences DO - 10.29352/mill0202e.02 UR - https://revistas.rcaap.pt/millenium/article/view/12098 SP - 21-38 AB - <p><strong>Introduction:</strong> The well-being is related with the way a person, generally, describes his/her life positively, in other words, the satisfaction a person shows regarding his/her life. When joining university, the student is exposed to several changes regarding what he/she was used to experience before. Those changes can contribute for his/her development, independence and autonomy process, and, in other way, represent inadequate and/or disturbing sensations. So, the university fitting process is complex and might potentially generate stress induction situations in several academic life’s moments.</p><p><strong>Objectives:</strong> To evaluate university students well-being; Determine the effect of coping in students’ well-being.</p><p><strong>Methods:</strong> Descriptive study with transversal focus. The sample is composed by 174 university students, being 82,8% feminine gender. The data gathering was obtained by the online filling of the following instruments: Positive and Negative Afect Schedule (PANAS), portuguese version from Galinha &amp; Pais Ribeiro (2005), Scale de Brief – Cope Portuguese version from Pais Ribeiro &amp; Rodrigues (2004).</p><p><strong>Results:</strong> University students show more positive affection being by a minimum of 13 and a maximum of 50, with the mean value of M = 30.79, suggestive of subjective well-being. For negative affection, the minimum is -10 and the maximum of 35, being M=15,68. Regarding global subjective well-being, minimum is -8 and maximum 38, with (M= 15,11±9,058) which indicates that university students show more positive affection. The positive affection predictor variable was the positive reinterpretation, explaining 15,5% of the variation, being the explained adjusted variance of 15,0%. The older students (≥23 years old) show more positive aspects, showing that age interferes in the subjective well-being of the sample.</p><p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> University students show more positive affection. The positive reinterpretation is a predictor in positive affection, the behavioral divestment; denial and substance abuse are negative affection predictors. The subjective well-being predictors are: active coping, behavioral divestment, self-blaming, positive reinterpretation and self-distraction, suggesting that coping predicts university students’ well-being, so these variables should be considered when planning pedagogical actions directed to them</p> ER -