Protective factors and mental health in couples who expect a child in confinement.

Objective: Adverse situations can affect the mental health and support of pregnant women and their partners, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting confinement periods. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the protective factors in the mental health of pregnant women and their partners, as well as the interrelationships of these factors, in an adverse situation, through the assessment of resilience, perceived support, anxiety, depression and stress.

Methods: The sample consisted of 38 women with no pregnancy risk and 25 partners evaluated between gestation weeks 24 and 31.

Effective Coping with Academic Stress Is a Matter of Personality Types: Revisiting the Person-Centred Approach.

Recent literature provides alarming data on the increase in university academic stress. The role of personality in understanding and addressing this problem is well established. However, this evidence could be improved by adopting a person-centred approach (e.