Abstract
This article analyzes the socio-emotional processes of students at the university level of anxiety, anguish, stress, uncertainty, and fear related to the change from face-to-face classroom to virtual, remote schooling as part of the Mexican federal social distancing program "Stay at Home." The data was obtained from the application of the Psychosocial and Socio-Emotional Meter regarding the COVID 19 contingency (MPE-COVID 19), during the months of April and May of 2020. The traits of social interactions and cultural meanings that generate emotional alterations in university students are identified from a sociocultural perspective of the emotions. The hypothesis is that the experiences and emotional expressions of the student community are regulated by the social position they occupy in the social structure, and by their own cultural contexts. The analysis allows us to understand that the anxiety, anguish, stress, uncertainty, and fear reported by the students are not maladaptive responses that reflect a psychological vulnerability, but rather due to micro, meso and macrosocial conditions exacerbated by the health emergency.