Research on College Students’ Stresses and Coping Strategies

www.ccsenet.org/ass Asian Social Science Vol. 7, No. 10; October 2011 Research on College Students’ Stresses and Coping Strategies Hong Ji School of Management, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China & Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China E-mail: [e-mail] Lei Zhang Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China
Received: July 2, 2011 Accepted: July 26, 2011 Published: October 1, 2011 doi:10.5539/ass.v7n10p30 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v7n10p30
Abstract
The mental stresses of college students gain wide attentions from the society currently. In this paper, authors investigate the mental stresses of college students and argue that there are four sources of stresses, namely employment situations, study conditions, personal factors, and economic conditions. It shows a significant positive correlation between employment situations and mental stresses of college students, and a positive correlation between study conditions and mental stresses. Although there is a postive correlation between economic conditions, personal factors and mental stresses respectively, the differences are very prominent for individuals. Keywords: College students, Mental stress, Stress source
1. Introduction
In recent years, it happens sometimes that college students suffer from physical or mental illness, which even leads to temporary absence from school or even a suicidal. In 2008, a report on changes of numbers of college students, from the Ministry of Education of China, points out: a sample survey based on more than 10 million

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