L'accès à l'Université : une situation stressante à l'origine de certaines stratégies d'ajustement dysfonctionnelles

Coping strategies. - The dysfunctional coping strategies were chosen by a significant number of students (35 to 45% over sleep as a mean of refuge, a quarter of students accept their situation passively, 16 to 17% of students consume alcohol, medicine or other toxic substances, and 13% behave auto or heteroaggressively). The positive evaluations of challenge and benefit seems to instigate functional coping strategies (planning, information's research, self control strategies) whereas the negative evaluations of threat and loss lead to mobilization dysfunctional coping strategies like avoidance or escape (sleep, alcohol) and hetero aggressive confrontation.