Abstract

This study examined the patterns of coping strategies among Koreans during COVID-19 pandemic, the influence of demographic informations(gender, age, economic level, household type), unusual experience(fear, stress of COVID, constraints of routine, income risk) on the classification of subclasses, and also analysed the differences in psychological wellbeing(life satisfaction, depression, anxiety) among the subclasses. To this end, the online survey was conducted among Korean(n=600) between April 13, 2020 and 21, when WHO had declared the pandemic. First, Latent Profile Analysis(LPA) was used to identify subclasses and suggested that the 4-class model fit the best. Second, Class memberships were predicted by gender, age, economic level, fear, stress, constraints of routine, income risk. Finally, there are differences between the Classes depending on psychological wellbeing. 'High adaptive coping group' showed the highest level of satisfaction, and 'all engagement coping group' showed the highest level of depression, anxiety. Implications and suggestions are discussed.