Investigation of the coping style of college student in relieving the psychological stress

Objective:To investigate the coping style of college student in facing and relieving stress for providing the strong basis in targeted developing the mental health education for college students.Methods:The psychological stress and coping styles in 1 301 college students were investigated by stratified sampling method.The scores of gender,grade and different coping styles of college students were analyzed according to the results of the questionnaire survey.Results:The coping style of college student in facing and relieving stress tended to be more reasonable.The difference of the score of coping style between male and female college student was not statistically significant(P>0.05).Compared with the grade one college student,the coping styles of the grade two and three college students in facing and relieving stress tended to be more unreasonable,and the differences of the scores of coping style in self-accusation,fantasy,retreat and rationalization between three grades college students were statistically significant(P<0.01).The coping styles from urban students were more ideal,and the scores of solving problem and asking help of the rural students were higher than that from urban students(P<0.01).Conclusions:Different groups have different coping styles in relieving stress,the targeted psychological intervention and help should be taken according to its characteristics.