Stress of College Students of Mianyang City and their Coping Strategies: A Study

Abstract

Nowadays, many college students have a lot of stress, which does great harm to their health. In order to examine the stress that students of Mianyang city are now undergoing and the strategies they used to cope with their stress, on October 10th 2017, an instance of survey was conducted among 3000 students from different colleges and universities of Mianyang city. Among them 1500 were male and the other 1500 were female. The survey was carried out by means of a questionnaire given to the students to complete. There were 25 questions among which 23 were ticking items and the other two should be answered with sentences. According to the collected data, the students came to Mianyang for further education. They were experiencing stress. The main stressors, in order, were competition in study, financial pressure, homesickness and maladaptation to the circumstances. Most of them studied hard, so they got up early in the morning. Each one of them had confidence in themselves. The main harms their stress did to them, in order, were inefficiency in study, bad mood and insomnia. But a majority of them never thought of giving up. When they got a low mark, most of them would feel disappointed. The four most important strategies to cope with their stress, in order, were walking slowly, enjoying humors, telephoning relatives or friends and traveling. Few of them agreed that drinking or smoking could alleviate stress. A majority of them agreed that sleeping was the best way to reduce and control stress.