STRESSORS, STRESS, AND ITS COPING MECHANISM DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC OF THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

This study determines the relationship between the stress level and coping mechanisms of Senior High School students during the COVID-19 pandemic with gender as an intervening variable. This study aims to find the difference in the coping mechanisms during the COVID-19 pandemic among senior high school students in terms of gender. The researchers wish to use the results as an added guide to improve the students’ coping mechanisms by gender-customized sessions and activities to identify appropriate coping mechanisms. This is a correlational study using a total sample of one hundred (100) senior high school students determined using quota sampling comprising of (50) males, and (50) females who are in grades 11 and 12, strands: TVL, STEM, ABM, and GAS. Senior high school students’ coping mechanism during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a total of 100 respondents (response rate 100%), has no significant correlation in terms of gender and coping (n=100, p>0.05), but it has a significant correlation in terms of strand and stress (p=0.024, p>0.05), and strand and challenge (p=0.008, p>0.05). Gender does not affect coping mechanism, but the strand affects the coping mechanism and stress levels of a senior high school student.