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Media has become a primary tool to cope with stress, allowing the pursuit of different coping strategies. University life is often considered a time that involves high levels of academic stress, and young adults are known to primarily use online in comparison to offline media. While in research on problematic internet use, using online media for coping is often considered maladaptive behaviour, other findings indicate that online media is a central and effective way of coping. The personality trait coping flexibility has emerged as one important factor for adaptive coping that is associated with outcomes such as psychological well-being and may predict whether coping using online media is adaptive, as indicated by elevated well-being, or maladaptive, as indicated by increased perceived stress. Moreover, a better understanding of personality factors that may influence the selection of media as coping tools is required. Thus, this study examines how coping flexibility relates to the use of different internet-based coping tools for stress regulation, and whether coping flexibility plays a moderating role for the relationship between the use of online coping tools and academic stress and well-being. Additionally, the prevalence of media use for coping is examined. Surveys will be administered at two times during the semester to students in a longitudinal design. |
