TY - JOUR AU - Polo Herrera, Sharon AU - Castaño Gutiérrez, Ariadna AU - Palacio, Lizeth Julio AU - Barros Jaraba, Andrea AU - Montañez Romero, Miguel AU - Orozco Santander, María PY - 2022/03/21 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Relación entre la ansiedad y estilos de afrontamientos ante los exámenes en estudiantes de psicología JF - Ciencia Latina Revista Científica Multidisciplinar JA - Ciencia Latina VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Artículos DO - 10.37811/cl_rcm.v6i2.1903 UR - https://ciencialatina.org/index.php/cienciala/article/view/1903 SP - 484-504 AB - Anxiety as a psychological phenomenon affects different scenarios of life generating alterations in their performance. Its identification and how to cope with it is of importance in the educational sector in particular, as it is manifested before the presentation of exams and how students cope with it, so we sought to identify the levels of anxiety and coping styles of psychology students before exams at a university in Colombia. The COPING coping strategies scale and the AMAS-C scale for anxiety were applied. The methodology is quantitative, with a cross-sectional descriptive level.  A non-probabilistic sampling by conglomerate of psychology students from II to X semester 2020-2 was carried out, for a sample of 133 selected students. The results show that the levels of anxiety before exams were 33% clinically significant anxiety, 33% mild anxiety, 22% total anxiety and 22% presented levels of clinically significant extreme anxiety. With respect to coping styles, 100% of the sample used the expression of coping difficulty (EAD). As a conclusion it is evident that the realization of an activity such as exams tends to generate an emotional response in all students, likewise regardless of the degree of anxiety that may be presented in general the main response of coping style, will be to express the difficulty to others as a means of escape. ER -