Navigating Stress in the Digital Classroom: Coping Strategies of Financial Management Students

The academic experience of college students has been entirely transformed by the move to online flexible learning, presenting new difficulties that put their mental and emotional resilience to the test. The study investigates the coping strategies adopted by Financial Management Students at Isabela State University – Cauayan City Campus in response to the challenges of online flexible learning. The main causes of stress and the coping strategies employed by students were determined using a structured survey and a quantitative descriptive research methodology. The findings indicated that the most prevalent stressors were the lack of in-person engagement, internet-related problems, and academic pressures. Students responded by implementing a variety of coping strategies, such as social support, emotional control, time management, and exercise. Students who employed adaptive coping strategies reported reduced levels of stress, according to the study, which also found a substantial correlation between coping strategies and stress levels. These results highlight how important it is for educational institutions to offer focused mental health assistance and give students useful coping strategies in the rapidly changing world of the digital classroom.