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Objective: Stress is a barrier to academic success for college students and the unique resilience effects of ambiguity and uncertainty tolerance have yet to be explored. We hypothesized that tolerance of ambiguity and tolerance of uncertainty relate to academic stress differently. Participants: We recruited 158 undergraduate participants from a medium-size public university in the Midwestern United States. Method: Participants completed measures of ambiguity tolerance, uncertainty tolerance, and academic stress coping strategies. Three separate regression analyses were conducted to predict approach coping, avoidance coping, and social support coping. Results: Results indicated that intolerance of ambiguity is a stronger predictor of approach and avoidance academic stress coping strategies compared to intolerance of uncertainty. Conclusion: These findings will allow for a better understanding of the dynamics underlying coping with academic stress that will be helpful to consider in vocational as well as mental health counseling for college students.

LGB people may become less accessible to health professionals as technology reshapes LGB social connections. Though electronic forms of health promotion are effective, some interventions must be delivered in person. We use GIS to analyze characteristics (e.g., gender identity, depression, and performance involvement) shared by 114 gay, cisgender male drag performers. We used geographic ordinary least squares (OLS) regression to identify spatial relationships based on participant distance from urban centers. Participants lived between 1.73 km (1.07 mi) and 762.77 km (101.14 mi) from the nearest urban center (Mdn = 16.60 km; 10.31 mi). We found a positive correlation between distance from the nearest urban center and performance involvement (R = 0.19, p ≤ 0.05). Results indicate that drag performers are widely disbursed relative to urban centers and that drag involvement provides motivation to travel to gay bars. Health professionals with in person services may use drag shows and related performances to access LGB populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]