Background. The Peruvian population during Covid-19 has been exposed to stressful and traumatic events, associated with close experiences with suffering and death; but these experiences have also generated positive psychological growth. The objective was to develop a model of structural equations to determine if coping with stress is a predictor of post-traumatic growth in a Peruvian population. Method. The design was predictive cross-sectional. 310 people participated, 58 % men and 42 % women, aged 18 to 63 years (M=31.6). The COPE-28 Spanish version (Morán et al., 2010) and the Postraumatic Growth Inventory PTGI (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996), adapted by Ramos-Vera et al (2021). Results. In the first model, the coping strategies religion (β=.209, p<.01), self-distraction (β=.111, p<.01) and disconnection (β=-.147, p<.05) are significant predictors and explain 14.9 % of pos...