L’efficacia del Counseling Universitario durante la pandemia da Covid-19: Un’indagine pilota sul benessere degli studenti.

COVID-19 pandemic and its following confinement measures had a strong impact on individual’s well-being especially on undergraduate university students. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of a counseling intervention on university students during the first stage of the current pandemic (march-october 2020). The authors investigated this issue by assessing self-reported measures of Psychological Well-Being, Emotion-Regulation, and Perceived Self-Efficacy, in a sample of 49 (37 females) students requiring access to the Counseling Service of the University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, Italy. A series of repeated-measures ANOVA 2x2 was performed considering both the pre-post factor and gender as independent variables on each of the self-reported measures. Results showed a significantly increased Psychological well-being, use of functional Emotion-Regulation strategies, and Perceived Self-Efficacy in the sample.