Psychosocial characteristics of Dominican university students in a post COVID-19 scenario

Abstract

The aim of this research was to psychosocially characterize university students from the Dominican Republic (N = 333, M = 20.44, D.T. = 14.83, 70% women) in the dimensions Depression, Anxiety, Stress, satisfaction with life and economic resilience. The instruments used were the DASS-21, Satisfation with life scale, and an experimental scale of economic resilience, all adapted to the local context. The results show significant differences between genders in the dimensions measured and in terms of areas of knowledge, marital status and level of studies, concluding that unfavorable conditions persist in these variables for return to face-to-face education that fundamentally make women students more vulnerable than men, in the current post-pandemic era.