Mindfulness, Stress, and Coping Among University Students

A sample of 135 first-year university students living in residence completed questionnaires that measured individual differences in mindfulness, coping styles, and perceived stress. Findings revealed significant positive relationships between mindfulness and rational coping, and significant negative relationships with emotional and avoidant coping and perceived stress. Regression analyses revealed that avoidant coping and perceived stress predicted 38.2 % of the variance of mindfulness scores. Findings from this study improve our understanding of how mindfulness relates to coping styles, thereby suggesting po-tential ways to enhance counselling services and programming for first-year university students during the often difficult transition to university. résumé Un échantillon de 135 étudiants de première année d’université vivant en résidence ont rempli des questionnaires mesurant des différences individuelles d’attention, de styles d’adaptation et de stress perçu. Les résultats ont révélé d’importantes relations positives entre l’attention et l’adaptation rationnelle, et d’importantes relations négatives entr