en <div style=text-align: justify;><strong>Aims:</strong> The conscious regulation of learning enables students to cope with academic, social and technological demands in times of COVID-19 pandemic in a positive or negative way. The aim was to explain the influence of cognitive learning strategy on academic stress in university students.<br> <strong>Instrument & Methods:</strong> This quantitative research with basic type a hypothetico-deductive method was performed. The sample of two hundred students (one student calculated through probability sampling) who were administered instruments with content and construct validity, as well as reliability by Cronbach's Alpha of 0.99 for learning strategies and academic stress.<br> <strong>Findings:</strong> The predominant cognitive strategy was information coding, considered risky because it produces high levels of stress, as well as idiosyncratic underlining, reviewing aloud and repeated review; while applications, metaphors, groupings and concept maps were considered protective, because they do not generate academic stress. Likewise, social interactions had a significant influence on the information processing support strategy.<br> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> The information coding, epigraphy, applications, searching for encodings, and social interactions strategies have the highest effect on cognitive learning, information acquisition indicators, information coding, information retrieval, and processing support, respectively.<br> </div> Covid-19,Social Interactions,Cognitive Strategies,Academic Stress, 535 541 http://hehp.modares.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-66454-1&slc_lang=en&sid=4 D. Fuster-Guillén dorisFusterGuillen85@gmail.com 1003194753284600237543 1003194753284600237543 Yes National University of San Marcos, Lima, Perú C.E. Díaz Vergara 1003194753284600237544 1003194753284600237544 No Universidad César Vallejo, Lima, Perú P.E. Guillén Aparicio 1003194753284600237545 1003194753284600237545 No Universidad San Martín de Porres, Lima, Perú M. Graciela Barzola Loayza 1003194753284600237546 1003194753284600237546 No Universidad Privada San Juan Bautista, Lima, Perú M. Alva Borjas 1003194753284600237547 1003194753284600237547 No Catholic University Los Angeles of Chimbote, Chimbote, Perú