Resilience as a Protective Factor Against Stress and Anxiety: Implications for Student Well-Being

The COVID-19 outbreak caused a significant frequency of mental health conditions in the general population, including acute stress, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and impaired concentration. This study seeks to assess the role of student resilience in reducing the perceived anxiety and stress brought on by the COVID-19 impact in order to maintain or improve students' subjective well-being. It also sought to explore the influence of the devastating occurrences on students' subjective well-being using perceived anxiety and stress as mediators.​​ The sample size consisted of 685 university students from Andorra, Mexico and Spain. Findings revealed that resilience regulates the relationship between students' subjective well-being and how anxious or stressed they believe themselves to be, additionally it lessens long-term detrimental effects of COVID-19 on their overall psychological health.