Reaching for Energy Drinks and Ability to Deal Effectively with Difficult Situations in the Opinion of Students

Abstract

Dynamically changing reality poses new challenges to us hence the need to be mobile and dispositional. Consequently, we are reaching for different products that increase our performance often at the expense of our own health. The research was conducted among students of the first year of humanities at the UMCS in Lublin. The questionnaire of authors’ own design was used to determine the frequency of reaching for energy drinks by the tested students as well as their tasks and duties. CISS and GSES were used to diagnose styles of coping with stress and self-efficacy. Almost half of the respondents do not reach for energy drinks and one in ten admits to frequently reach for such beverages. No dependence was observed between reaching for energy drinks and the styles used by the respondents in different difficult situations and levels of self-efficacy.