Existential Anxiety and Free Time Activities in University Students

This correlational study intends to describe the symptoms of existential anxiety and its relation to freetime activities in a sampling of 100 university students in a city located on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. A method to measure existential anxiety was used and nine categories were related with the free time variable. The results of the study indicate that an average of 47% of the university students polled, presented varied, high and severe levels of anxiety symptomatology, when confronting existential situations related to freedom, existential isolation, death and lack of vital sense. Significant, statistical and meaningful relationships were observed between the psychological symptomatology and great intellectual ability and need of sleeping; between low assertive symptomatology and reading; between severe assertiveness and exercise; and between the severely physical symptomatology and exercise.